▶ How to create a thread on Twitter

Today we explain how to create a thread on Twitter They are in fashion, they have become a great alternative with much more visibility to the traditional blogs and are even beginning to be considered a new journalistic genre. A Twitter thread is a series of tweets published by the same account, consecutive and linked to each other. It is a way to overcome the limit of 280 characters per tweet and it is almost impossible not to come across one every time we enter this social network.

In order to start a thread, all you have to do is click on your first tweet and look for the 'Reply Tweet' button to post another one below In this way, both will be linked, thus starting your thread. You can extend this process to infinity so that nothing is left in the inkwell.

How to quote a Tweet in a thread

Another aspect that is interesting is knowing how to cite a tweet in a thread In this way we can add additional information to it about the that we want to point something out or go even deeper. There are two ways to do it, depending on whether you quote it at the beginning of your thread or later.

If you want to quote him at the beginning, all you have to do is press the retweet button and select 'Quote Tweet' From In this way, you will be able to write what you want and the quoted tweet that you have chosen will appear under your information. If you want to quote it later, the best way is to copy the link of the tweet, which you can do by clicking on the tweet you want to quote to bring up the details.At the bottom right you will find the share symbol (see image), and then you can copy the link. When you have it, paste it into the tweet in which you want it to appear and it will appear quoted automatically.

How to share a Twitter thread

If you are more into sharing than writing, you are more interested how to share a Twitter thread Again, in this case it will depend on what part of the thread you are interested in sharing, if the beginning or a part of it. The most common is to share an entire thread, so all you have to do is retweet the initial tweet and it will appear in the TL of your followers and they will be able to open it and read it completely.

If the thread you want to share has 15 tweets but you are especially interested in the seventh, you can do that too. Click the retweet icon on which you want to share and it will be the one your followers will seeIf they drill down, they'll see it's part of a thread and can scroll up or down depending on what they're interested in seeing.

How to search for a thread on Twitter

Do you want to know how to search for a thread on Twitter? Sometimes we are interested in delving into a specific topic, but our users do not usually write about it. Unfortunately, the search engine on Twitter does not yet allow you to filter results by threads to make our lives easier.

A solution that many tweeters are using is to let their followers know when they are going to open a thread Thus, the expression “ I open thread” has become a great solution to be able to have the information we want at hand. For example, if we want to find threads about WhatsApp, we can write in the search engine the terms "I open thread" (in quotation marks, so it will detect the two words joined together, and 'WhatsApp'.

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