I would advise you not to let anyone describe Twitter as an online microblogging and social networking service that allows users to submit and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters. Especially when Twitter is causing social change in various hot spots around the world. It proves that informal passages of 140 characters or less can make us think a little differently about the world. If you’re a late convert, there’s a lot to discover on the social network that Jack Dorsey and his friends created in 2006.
So, when everyone’s favorite celebrities, presidents, and uncles are on Twitter…why wouldn’t you?
Create your first Twitter account
Tweeting is as fun as Google. But it all starts with an account. Signing up is simple – you need a username, email account and password. Click the big yellow button on the home page.
You can get a suggested username or create one of your own with 15 characters or less. Click the drop-down list next to your name in the top right.
You can go into your account settings and change your username. You also get your public profile URL. You will need to confirm your email address to access all Twitter features.
What is life without a few friends on Twitter?
Twitter is about following people whose tweets may be of interest to you. It’s also about sending your own tweets and letting others follow you. Twitter makes it easy by guiding you to search for friends by username or interest. Twitter also suggests a few accounts to follow. Check out the right panel.
For instance, I searched for users and tweeted about some of my personal interests like motivation, freebies, local city news, etc. Click the green Follow button to add their tweets to your account.
If you want to “unfollow” an account, simply click the green button that appears again (Following). Your Twitter network is built with the people you follow and vice versa with the people who follow you.
Let’s Tweet
Tweeting is simply typing your thoughts in 140 characters or less and sending it out with the click of a Tweet button. It’s like a status update. You can also upload an image and add your location to the message using the small icons that appear below the large white box you see in the screenshot below.
All tweets aggregated on the timeline that you can see on your homepage.
With each tweet on your timeline, you can do a few things:
- You may love it.
- You can retweet it to your followers.
- You can reply to the tweet with another tweet of 140 characters or less. This shows up in the recipient’s public timeline. You can also click the little gray arrow in front to see all the other replies that have been submitted. The reply (@reply) always starts with the username of the person you are replying to.
Mentions are tweets that contain the username anywhere in the body of the tweet. It’s a way of addressing a person by his Twitter username.
Direct messages (now just called ‘messages’..also known as DMs) are direct private communications sent to any of your followers. It cannot be sent to someone who is not following you.
The # symbol, known as a hashtag, and you’ll see it with multiple tweets appearing in your timeline. It’s just a way to categorize tweets and make it easier for you to find tweets of interest. You can put a hashtag before a related keyword so it can be found on Twitter search. Clicking on a word tagged with # in any message will show you all the other Tweets in that category. Popular hashtags become a trending topic on Twitter.
This is a very basic introduction to Twitter. Over the next few days, we’ll be diving into Twitter to show you the amazing ways you can use 140 characters. Of course, we’ve covered some of the tools and tricks that might be useful to Twitter users in the past, and you can find those tools and tricks on our Twitter card page.
If you want to get started, post this by tapping the tweet button on the left or using the button below the post. Also don’t forget to follow Tech Guide on Twitter! ????
PS: Twitter has a glossary and a page on best pratice it’s a must read.
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