Complete List of Keyboard Shortcuts for Twitter

In our earlier articles we have explained the navigational keyboard shortcuts for Facebook and emoji keyboard shortcuts. Similar to Facebook, Twitter web interface also has lots of keyboard shortcuts. It helps you to do two things – navigate through different pages and act on individual tweet messages. These keyboard shortcuts can save you lots of time if you spending more time on Twitter website. With a few keys you can be an expert in using Twitter without the need of mouse.

Twitter Keyboard Shortcuts

The table below shows a complete list of Twitter keyboard shortcuts that you can use:

Timeline Navigation Shortcuts
G + N	Open notifications
G + P	Account profile
G + M	Open Direct Messages
G + S	Open account settings
G + L	To see likes
G + R	For mentions
G + H	Home page
G + U	Goes to users
G + D	Display settings pop-up
G + B	Open Bookmarks
G + I	Open your Lists
G + E	Explore (show trends and other relevant details for you)
?	To display a list of all shortcuts
.	Load new tweets
Space	To scroll down the page
J	Scroll to next tweet in timeline
K	Scroll to previous tweet in the timeline
Shortcuts for Actions
N	Start a new tweet
L	Like a tweet
R	Reply to a tweet
M	Start a new Direct Message
Control + Enter or Command + Enter	Send a tweet
S	Share tweet
T	Retweet a post
/	Shifts focus to the search box
B	Add tweet to your Bookmarks
U	Mute account
X	Block account
O	Expand an image
Enter	Open tweet message

How to Use Twitter Keyboard Shortcuts?

Twitter keyboard shortcuts work all on operating systems like Windows and Mac. The navigational shortcuts work on the Twitter webpage while most of the action shortcuts work when you have opened or highlighted a tweet. For example, open your Twitter account and press J key to highlight and navigate to next tweets. Similarly, press K key to highlight and move to previous tweet. When you have highlighted the tweet use the action shortcuts to like, reply or retweet quickly.

When you on the Twitter webpage, press the ? key (shift + ?) on your keyboard to get the full list of keyboard shortcuts.