Author(s):

Chris Messina

In 140 characters:

CC is used to notify one or more Twitter users that a message might be of interest to them.

Description:

CC'ing ("carbon copying" in historic terms) is a useful way to point a tweet at someone so that they see it. It's a more intentional way of performing a mention without directly addressing the target. It is designed to mimic email's CC: field.

Details and Use Cases:

To use a CC "field", one simply needs to insert "cc @username" into a tweet:

Better yet, remove the parentheses and use the slasher instead, to save yet another character!

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