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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 sign up on Twitter, start tweeting (in 140 characters or less), attract followers, find fellow twitterers 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. Here's how you sign [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's happening?" in 140 characters or less. To tweet, type a message in the What's Happening? text box, keeping under the 140-character limit, [more…]
How to Search and Read 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 Profile at the top to open your Profile page, [more…]
Twitter Etiquette for Beginners
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. There are various ways to work with followers: you can pull up a list of your followers on any Twitter page, as well as manage your [more…]
How to See Whom 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…]
