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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 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 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…]

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…]