Your messaging should be• Consistent • Credible • Conformto your mission • Relevant to work • Say it with an image or shortvideo • Link back to our website.

What do you say?

The Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service offers its programs to all eligible persons regardless of race,color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, religion, age, disability, marital or veteran sta-tus, genetic information, or any other legally protected status, and is an Affirmative Action/Equal OpportunityEmployer.

# Hashtags

Online, you are: Your handle (15 characters

including spaces) • Your mission •Your message • Your bio (160characters, including spaces) •Your profile image (thumbnail) •

Your cover photo • Yourbackground image.

One-hundred-forty charactersis all you have. This includes

spaces and punctuation. Watchhow others tweet to help you findcurrent abbreviations and othershortcuts. Use Bitly to shortenlengthy web addresses.

Hashtags are likekeywords in a search. They

help others find you. Use wordsthat reflect why you think yourtweet should be seen. Includeother people’s handles ashashtags so they’ll know you

tweeted something ofinterest to them.

Playingwell w/others

If you are tweeting professionally, remember you are a government employee. Keep the contentprofessional. Use your tweets to guide people to our resources. Retweet others with similarprofessional interests. Follow others when they follow you. Know which of your colleagues is onTwitter and follow them. And remember, your boss is probably on Twitter.

Who are you? 140 characters

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Basic info about you.

4 Tweets from those you follow.5 Current hot topics.

2 Search for people or hashtags.3 Suggested folks to follow.

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Tweet Cheet Sheet

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