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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 Import Contact Lists to Twitter
You can import your friends (known as contacts, in Twitter-speak) to the microblogging tool from other services — such as Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, AOL, and Hotmail — that you already use. Twitter will let you [more…]
How to Invite Contacts to Join Twitter
You can use Twitter to connect with your friends by sending them an invitation to join Twitter. By inviting your friends to become Twitter contacts, you’re letting them know that you’re on Twitter and [more…]
How to Send Your Twitter Contacts Direct Messages
Direct messages (DM) let you send your contacts private notes through Twitter. Just like regular tweets and @replies, direct messages are limited to 140 characters. Unlike regular tweets and [more…]
How to Tweet on Twitter Using @replies
One of Twitter’s more powerful conversational features is @replies. @replies is a tweet that, although public and visible to all Twitter users, is directed specifically to one Twitter user. [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 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 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 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 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 Insert Links into Twitter Tweets
Almost all Twitter users incorporate links into their tweets on a regular basis. You can insert links to Web pages, blog entries, or even other tweets. The toughest part of including these links is getting [more…]
How to Use Twitter Shorthand Codes
The more you use Twitter, the more you’re going to want to find quicker ways to tweet. Conveniently, Twitter has included a number of shorthand codes that you can use to perform almost any action directly [more…]
How to Change Your Twitter Avatar
Your avatar appears to the left of all your tweets, so it’s your official face on Twitter. People don’t like following you on Twitter if your avatar is just the default. So make sure that you change your [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…]
How to Change Your Twitter Background
You can change the background of your Twitter profile page from the default blue to another color. You can even upload an image of your choice (or do both!). You can tile an image [more…]
How to Receive Tweets with Your Cellphone
Many twitterers use Twitter almost exclusively on their mobile phones. Text messaging (SMS) is the most basic way to access Twitter via your cellphone. In addition to sending tweets as SMS messages from [more…]
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 [more…]
Using Twitter’s Access Points
Twitter isn’t just for computer-users. You can access Twitter from your iPhone, Blackberry, or any mobile phone with Internet access. You can even text tweets from any cell phone with SMS capabilities. [more…]
How to Use Shorthand Codes for Twitter
Send tweets even faster with Twitter shorthand commands. Shorthand codes work within the Twitter interface, anywhere you can update, or over text messaging. These commands aren’t case sensitive, which [more…]
Twitter Guidelines to Live By
The Twitterverse doesn’t have many rules, but there is such a thing as Twitter etiquette. Writing tweets of 140 characters or less isn’t the only guideline. Your experience on Twitter will be a positive [more…]
What NOT to Do on Twitter
Twitter etiquette isn’t only about what you shoulddo. Unfortunately, bad tweets and poor Twitter practices sometimes show up within microblogging communications. While you can’t really go horribly wrong [more…]
Twitter For Dummies Cheat Sheet
Using Twitter is fun and surprisingly easy. It doesn’t matter where you access Twitter — online, with an iPhone or Blackberry, or via text-message; you can quickly navigate the Twitterverse with just a [more…]
Track Your Brand on Twitter
Before you jump into actively marketing on Twitter, find conversations about your brand. These effective and easy-to-use tools can help you in this process: [more…]
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