Mentions vs. Replies

Welcome to the world of TwitterPonies! I see that you are quite the eager pony here in Ponyville and wish to jump straight into the excitement of interacting with other strange male men (and the occasional female) called Bronies (Or Pegasisters) who crave a show meant for very young girls.

Good for you!

By now, you should have read the official guidelines as set up by the TwitterPonies moderators and should know the basic layout of the RP. If you haven’t seen these rules yet, please take a few minutes to check it out before continuing. They’re much more important! (TwitterPonies Homepage)

Read the rules? Good. Have a decent character you want to make 20% Cooler? Great! But how do you do this?

The simple way is to act as if your pony is truly who you are. Speak normally in the RP, as if you were speaking to a friend.

I’m just going to get to the point here: Mentions and Replies on Twitter. As a new player, it is essential that you mention other characters so they know that you are talking to them. Hopefully, they will follow you while they interact with you. Easiest solution in the world: No more mentioning. If they don’t, you need to mention them in each and every tweet.

Now, there’s a proper and improper way to do this. The easiest (and improper way) to do this is to just stick the name into the tweet.

ex1) “Hey there! How’s it going? (@mlp_character)”
ex2) “.@mlp_character Hey there! How’s it going?”

It doesn’t look good. Neither of them do. It gets the point across, but it looks...amateurish.

The BEST way to do this is to integrate the character’s name into each tweet so it looks natural.

ex) “Hey there @mlp_character! How’s it going?”

It flows. Done. No more to be said on mentioning.

Now, if you look back at “ex2” from the bad mentions, you’ll notice that there is a period before the name. This NEEDS to be done whenever the character name is at the beginning of a tweet! If this is not done, the tweet is then called a Reply, not a mention. That character will be able to see every mention and reply, but depending on how your Twitter is set up, not everypony following along will see the replies. This is why the integration mention system is much better.

Just use it! From experience, I KNOW your character will become much more awesome!