ways to write social media updates?

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Combined, there are a litany of ways to compose, style, and organize a social media update, even in just the words we use in our updates.

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Ways to write Social Media Updates?

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25 Ways to Write a Facebook Update

Start the update with a question End the update with a question Include a fill-in-the-blank question Use a short URL Use a full URL

Use a custom URL (e.g., kiss.ly for KISSmetrics)

Do not include a URL (example below)

Sign the update with “- Your Name”

Use an image with text overlay

Use an image without text overlay

Write your headline in title case (e.g., capitalize all the main words)

Write your headline in sentence case (e.g., capitalize the first word and proper nouns only)

Write your update in all lowercase

“Headline: URL”

Share a link, then remove the link attachment (example below)

No text at all (example below)

Insert a horizontal rule

Place hashtags inside the update

Place hashtags at the end of the update

Use emoji

22 Ways to Compose a Tweet

Place your comments before the headline or retweet

Place your comments after the headline or retweet

“Commentary –> tweet”

“Commentary + tweet”

“Commentary > tweet”

“Commentary :: tweet”

“Commentary - tweet”

“Tweet [commentary]” (example below)

“Commentary || tweet”

Place hashtags inside the tweet

Place hashtags outside the tweet, at the end

Attribution after “via”

Attribution after “by”

Acknowledge others with an “HT” (stands for hat tip)

Manually retweet with an RT (stands for retweet)

Manually retweet with an MT (stands for modified tweet)

Insert hard returns so your tweet appears on multiple lines

Title case for capitalization

Sentence case for capitalization

All lowercase

Use custom shortening URL (e.g., kiss.ly for KISSmetrics)

Use the full URL (Twitter will truncate around the 30- character mark)

4 Ways to Compose an Update on LinkedIn

Include a link after the update

Remove the link after the update

Post as a link

Post as an image

8 Ways to Compose an Update on Google+

Leave the update blank and only share a link (example below)

Use bold formatting for the headline (example below)

Use italics for the headline (example below)

Use bold formatting for words inside a paragraph

Place hashtags inside the update

Place hashtags at the bottom

Place everything in the same paragraph

Place things on separate lines

8 Ways to Compose an Update on Instagram

Place hashtags inside the update

Place hashtags at the bottom

Place hashtags in the comments

Place everything in the same paragraph

Place things on separate lines

Tag other users inside the update (example below)

Tag other users at the end of the update

Use emoji

4 Ways to Compose a Pin on Pinterest

Craft a custom message (example below)

Use title tags and meta info from the original site

Hashtags inside the pin

Hashtags at the end of the pin

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