From the course: Social Media for Graphic Designers
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How to say a lot in 280 characters
From the course: Social Media for Graphic Designers
How to say a lot in 280 characters
- Shakespeare had a great quote, brevity is the soul of wit. I think that statement suits Twitter perfectly. You have a finite amount of characters to communicate with. But you don't want to rush it. You want to be a wordsmith. So let me show you how I deduce narrative into micro short stories when I share and post on Twitter. So we're on our Thug Bunny Twitter profile page. And I want to go ahead and compose a tweet. So we're going to click the tweet button here, and that'll bring up this, and now I'm going to simply attach an image, in this case, it's a brand character that I created called Jerry Can and so we've gave him a persona showing here, and I have a crafted tweet that I've written out, and I've ran through Grammarly to fix any and all grammar in spelling and punctuation. We're going to paste that in here. And this is going to make up what I call a micro short story of sorts, that fits within the framework…
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Understanding Twitter11m 32s
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Setting up profile and cover images5m 16s
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How to say a lot in 280 characters6m 48s
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Using conversation threads and retweeting7m 20s
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Posting images on Twitter8m 18s
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Posting videos on Twitter8m 54s
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Posting GIFs on Twitter4m 55s
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Using hashtags on Twitter5m 21s
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Using Advanced Search6m 27s
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Engaging with potential clients and other creatives11m 48s
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