Lesson 5 Vocab (aerika mclemore)

Question 1

Direct message (DM)

Answer 1

A private Twitter message between people who follow each other.

Question 2

Retweet (RT)

Answer 2

Sharing another user’s tweet with your followers. Retweets are shared using
the phrase “RT@username” or “Retweet@username.” The “at” symbol (@) is used to refer to
Twitter users by their username.

Question 3

Snap-chatter

Answer 3

Snapchat content is created by their users, who are called snap-chatters. Snap-
chatters only view the content that they want to see, and when they do view content, they have
to hold their finger down on the device to watch it in its entirety.

Question 4

Snaps

Answer 4

Posts on Snapchat. Snaps can be a photo or a short video, and can be edited to add
text, and to apply filters, stickers, and other overlays.

Question 5

Social signals

Answer 5

People sharing your content or an increase in traffic to your Web site from
social media platforms, can influence your search engine rankings.

Question 6

Tweet

Answer 6

An individual Twitter post.