The Essentials of Getting Connected and Communicating on Twitter

Talk to your friends, family, and co-workers in tweets — the abbreviated language of the easy-to-use microblogging service, Twitter. Discover how to get signed up on Twitter, start tweeting (in 140 characters or less), attract followers, find fellow tweeters you'd like to follow, and put the word out in good form for all the Web world to see!

How to Sign Up for Twitter

After you sign up for an account with Twitter — a simple, yet powerful microblogging tool — you can start sending out short instant messages and gathering followers for your Tweets. [more…]

How to Choose a Good Twitter Username

On Twitter, your username, or handle, is your identity. If you can, sign up for Twitter by using your name or a variation of it as your username (assuming somebody else isn’t already using it). For example [more…]

How to Tweet on Twitter

The entire premise of Twitter is to answer the question “What are you doing?” in 140 characters or less. To tweet, type a message in the What Are You Doing? text box, keeping under the 140-character limit [more…]

How to See Your Twitter Tweets

You can see what you’ve tweeted on Twitter in several ways. To see a running list of your past tweets, start with your own Twitter profile. To do so, click your avatar to open your Profile page, and you [more…]

How to Master Twitter Etiquette

Many new Twitter users want to know what the rules are, or whether Twitter has standard protocol and etiquette. Beyond Twitter’s standard Terms of Service, Twitter etiquette is simple: Be genuine and non-deceptive [more…]

How to See Who’s Following You on Twitter

You may want to see who’s following you – your followers – on Twitter. You can pull up a list of your followers on any Twitter page, as well as manage your new followers. [more…]

How to See Who You’re Following on Twitter

Passionate and genuine Twitter users can easily find people to follow and get them to follow them back. After you start using Twitter to its full potential, you may want to see a list of the people you [more…]

How to Customize Your Twitter Profile

Your public page on Twitter, also known as your profile, is other Twitter users’ first impression of you, and it can make a big difference in whether they decide to follow you. Customizing your Twitter [more…]