Social Media > Twitter How to Participate in a Twitter Chat Don’t miss out on the conversation in Twitter By Lisa Mildon Lisa Mildon Facebook Twitter Lifewire Technology Review Board Member & Quality Team Editor Southern New Hampshire University Lisa Mildon is a Lifewire writer and an IT professional with 30 years of experience. Her writing has appeared in Geekisphere and other publications. lifewire's editorial guidelines Updated on March 10, 2021 Tweet Share Email Tweet Share Email In This Article Expand Jump to a Section Step-by-Step: Find Chats Using Hashtags Find Trending Twitter Chats Find Live Chats Third-Party Chat Tools Using TweetDeck Why Join a Twitter Chat? Twitter chats are public conversations focusing on a hashtag, such as a television show, holiday, or news event. Some Twitter chats happen on designated days and specific times, while others are less formal ongoing conversations centered around a hashtag. Here's how to find Twitter chats so you can join in and share your thoughts. Instructions in this article apply to Twitter.com and the Twitter mobile app for iOS and Android. Edar / Pixabay How to Find Twitter Chats Using Hashtags Many companies and users create hashtags to get conversations started to promote a TV show, a movie, or a game. The quickest and easiest way to find out about a Twitter chat is to search for hashtags. Navigate to Twitter.com on your desktop, or open the Twitter app on your iOS or Android device. Using Twitter in a browser, find the search box on the upper-right corner of the screen and enter a search term starting with a hashtag. Press Enter or Return when finished. In this example, we searched for #TheCrown. In the Twitter smartphone app, tap the magnifying glass to start a search. You're presented with ongoing conversations about your search topic. Filter the search results by selecting categories such as Top, Latest, People, Photos, and Videos. How to Find Trending Twitter Chats Another way to find Twitter chats is to see what's trending. If you find something that interests you, it's easy to jump in. Using Twitter in a browser, select Explore from the menu on the left. In the Twitter smartphone app, tap the magnifying glass and then tap Trending. Select Trending from the top menu to see the popular topics of the day, or choose a specific category, such as Sports or Entertainment. Select any trending subject to jump into a conversation. How to Find Live Twitter Chats Live chats feature people joining in to talk about a particular topic. These types of Twitter chats are at designated times, so you can add an upcoming chat to your calendar. To find a live chat, visit the Twubs Twitter Chat Schedule, the TweetReports Twitter Chat Schedule, or ChatSalad's list of upcoming chats, just to name a few sources. Third-Party Twitter Chat Tools Several third-party Twitter chat tools make it easy to find tweet chats. Some of the most popular are TwChat, TweetReports, tchat.io, and Twubs. These tools are web-based and load quickly, even on smartphone mobile browsers. These tools also help find a "live chat," which is an organized Twitter chat set for a certain date and time. Some of these tools make participating in tweet chats easier. For example, tchat.io adds your hashtag at the end of your composed tweet, so all you have to do is press the Tweet button on their site. With TweetDeck, you can filter your Twitter chat results even more or reply to individual tweets with a simple click. Twubs features live scrolling tweets, giving you a feeling of being part of a live conversation. How to Find Twitter Chats Using TweetDeck TweetDeck is an example of a tool that makes it easy to see the messages related to a hashtag. Go to the TweetDeck website and log in with your Twitter account. The first time you log in, you'll see a brief rundown of how the tool works. Select Get Started to continue. You should see several columns, such as Home, Notifications, Messages, and Trending. Select Add Column (plus sign) from the left side to add another column. Select Search. Enter your search criteria and press Enter. A new column appears with the hashtag you searched for. To chat, reply to any conversation thread, or start a new tweet using the hashtag. To tag another Twitter user so that they see your Tweet, add @ in front of the user's account name (for example, @Jimmy). Why Join a Twitter Chat? Aside from being fun, Twitter chats are a great way to promote yourself for employment, a work proposal, a product, or an article query to a potential editor. It's an excellent and inexpensive way to interact with customers and friends. For example, if you want to promote an event, tell everyone you know to use the same hashtag when talking about it on social media. That way, other Twitter users can search for information about it and join the conversation. Was this page helpful? 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