Should you tag yourself in Twitter posts? Twitter Etiquette

The short answer is no.  Basically, when you tag your twitter account in Twitter it's the equivalent of speaking about yourself in third-person. And Lauren thinks speaking about yourself in third-person is a bad idea.  When someone retweets you, your twitter handle is automatically in the tweet.  It is considered bad Twitter etiquette to tag yourself. As you can see in this tweet, @Sarah_Wow retweeted @7_Veils and the 7 Veils twitter handle is still in the tweet. 

In this tweet you can see the redundancy of tagging yourself:

I recommend not doing it. 

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Comments

  • no, the best idea is to add your name in the "who's in the image" at the bottom of the tweet.

     

    welcomed to link @thenataliek ;

     

    all the best xxx

  • maybe you already know it but:

    you can reply an old tweet of yours to re-up it in the TL

    you can do this like 5 times then it doesn't reup your tweet anymore 

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