How To Reply on Twitter

Did you just see someone “tweet” a question or something that you would like to reply to?

Here’s how you can reply to that person right from your Twitter account.

When you are posting your tweet you can include the @ symbol,  this signifies you wish to target this message at someone specific.  You use @twitterusername in your tweet.

So if you wanted to reply to me you would send a message that goes something like this:

“Hey @ryanmcmillan I noticed that you set up a really neat resource for Twitter users, called Twitorials, Thanks!”

By using the @ symbol in front of a Twitter user name you are able to send what is called an “@reply” to that user.  You can view the reply’s you have received in the graphic below:

Now depending on their settings, which I will get to in just a moment, this may or may not show up in that users timeline.

Here’s how you change change your “@reply” settings, so they perform like you want.

You can either have them all show up in your timeline, only @replys from the people you are following or none.

To change your @reply settings:

1. Log in to Twitter
2. Click Settings
3. Click Notices
4. Select the appropriate setting: all or nothing, or somewhere in between.
5. Save your changes

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