Twitter hover cards

Pt. 5 of 5 | 1:09 |

The Sweet Stuff: Twitter Top Secrets

Friday October 15, 2010

We explain a little bit about

Twitter hover cards

and how they can be used to

get information about Twitter users

. You can

view users' latest tweets

and easily choose to

follow or unfollow users

using these menus.

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Show Notes

- Hover cards appear when you hover over someone's name in Twitter.

- These show details about the Twitter user like their name, website, latest tweet and some Twitter stats.

- These stats include how many followers they have, how many users they are following, how many lists they are on and how many tweets they have made.

- From this card you can also choose to message other users, follow/unfollow them or block them.

- Click the phone icon to receive their messages on your cell phone and click the retweet button to choose whether to view retweets or not.

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