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How to Attend a Twitter Party

5 May 2010 19 views 6 Comments

May is Pregnancy Awareness Month! We’ll be hosting five Twitter parties this month, one for each of our initiatives.

Education

Exercise

Nutrition & Wellness

Nurture

You may be asking yourself: “How do I attend a Twitter party?”.

Easy!

What is a Twitter Party? A gathering of individuals on Twitter who follow a single conversation or subject using what are called hashtags.

What is a hashtag? A hashtag is the “#” sign. Perhaps because it looks like a hashbrown? No one can be sure. The hashtag for the Pregnancy Awareness Month Twitter Parties is #MayPAM. Whenever you tweet during the Pregnancy Awareness Month Twitter Parties to answer a contest question, ask a question, or make a comment, put #MayPAM at the beginning or end of your tweet.

Why do we use hashtags? If you login to Twitter and press the “Home” button, you will notice a search box in the right sidebar. If you enter #MayPAM in the box and press enter you will see all of the people participating in the Pregnancy Awareness Month Twitter parties and will be able to converse with them!

How do I enter contests? Login to Twitter and make sure you are following Pregnancy Awareness Month at http://www.twitter.com/pregawareness. Then watch both the Pregnancy Awareness Month tweets and when we post a contest, tweet back to us by pressing “reply” or tweeting to @PregAwareness.

Example Tweet: “@PregAwareness I love being pregnant!”

Putting the “@” sign in front of a Twitter user’s name sends the tweet to them.

What is a Retweet? Also abbreviated like this: RT, a Retweet is a copy of a tweet.

Tweet: @PregAwareness I love being pregnant!

tweet.

Retweet: RT @PregAwareness I love being pregnant!

Twitter lets you automatically Retweet posts. Be careful though, you only have 140 characters to use! Make it short and sweet.

View the Schedule of Online Events to find out when the next Twitter party is! There will be amazing contests given away at each one.

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6 Comments »

Pregnancy Awareness » Blog Archive » Online Schedule of Events said:

[...] How to attend a Twitter party: http://pregnancyawareness.com/2010/05/how-to-attend-a-twitter-party/ [...]

# 5 May 2010 at 6:46 pm

Pregnancy Awareness Month Twitter Party- Tonight! — Teach Your Baby said:

[...] If this is your first Twitter party, read this: How to Attend a Twitter Party: http://pregnancyawareness.com/2010/05/how-to-attend-a-twitter-party/ [...]

# 6 May 2010 at 4:45 pm

Miranda Johnson said:

Is an RSVP necessary?

I’ll try to attend at some point tonight.

@bctripletmom

bctripletmom at gmail dot com

# 20 May 2010 at 4:04 pm

Pregnancy Awareness » Blog Archive » Twitter Party Prize Gallery (5.20) said:

[...] Twitter Party Prize Gallery (5.20) 20 May 2010 No Comment We’re so excited about our Week #3 Nutrition & Wellness Twitter Party! Here are the fabulous prizes that you can enter to win. New to Twitter Parties? Learn how to attend here: http://pregnancyawareness.com/2010/05/how-to-attend-a-twitter-party/ [...]

# 20 May 2010 at 4:12 pm

admin said:

No RSVP needed!

# 20 May 2010 at 4:22 pm

Pregnancy Awareness » Blog Archive » Twitter Prize Gallery (5.25) said:

[...] Twitter Prize Gallery (5.25) 24 May 2010 No Comment We’re so excited about our Week #4 Nurture Twitter Party! Here are the fabulous prizes that you can enter to win. New to Twitter Parties? Learn how to attend here: http://pregnancyawareness.com/2010/05/how-to-attend-a-twitter-party/ [...]

# 24 May 2010 at 1:39 pm