Twitter Basics for Non-techies (like me)
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Twitter for Starters
Learn Twitter Basics
How to
• Watch a video overview of Twitter• Create a Twitter account• Update your status (start twittering)• Search for people with the same interests to follow• Reply to someones tweet• Save a tweet (favourite) to read later• Direct message someone you are following
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Your Internet browser would normally be Internet Explorer or Firefox. If you have a Mac it will be Safari
Open your web browser
Search for Twitter.com
Open Twitter.com
Twitter home page
Watch the video
Watch the Common Craft video to get an overviewof Twitter
Get started with Twitter
You need to:
• Decide and enter a username
Remember you are creating an online identity
• Your password
• Your email address
• The words you see in the image
• Accept the conditions to save and continue
Fill in these fields
• Username• Password• Email address• Image words• Accept conditions
Go to Settings to enter:
• Name • Username• Email• Time zone (drop down list)• Web site (if you have one) • Bio• Language preference• Then save the settings
Fill in these fields
Update your one line bio
Your bio
Make sure you write something meaningful in your Bio so other can learn something about you. Bios are searchable.
Go back to the Home Page
Home page: Update your status and view tweets from people you follow
Update your status in 140 characters
Update your status on your Home page
Search for people to follow
The search tab is a the bottom of the home page
Search: enter key words of your interests to find other people
Decide who you want to follow
Enter keywords of topics you want to follow
This will return tweets by people who have used these words. Look at their bio to see who they are and who their followers are.
Click the follow sign to follow someone
Follow is changed to following
You can see who you are following here
On the Home pageClick to see who you are following
Read your tweets
Profile page: Your tweets
You can see the tweets you have made here.
Reply to other people’s
tweets
The @ symbol sends a reply
This symbol before someones name sends a reply that Goes to their ‘reply’ tab. E.g.
@starpath
Click the reply symbol
This will place the ‘@’ symbol in the status update box before their name.Then type your reply
Reply to someone’s tweet by clicking the reply symbol
@name is inserted
This is where you can see replies to your tweets
Favourites
Save interesting tweets to read and reply to later
‘Favourite’ a tweetby clicking the star
This saves it into the ‘Favourites’ tab to go back and read when there is more time.
Read the tweets you have saved (favourites)
Your favourites here
Direct Messages
These are private messages between you and one other person
Send or read direct messages
Private messages are not for public viewing. An email is sent and the message is saved in the ‘Direct Messages’ tab.
You can see Sent and Received Direct Messages here:
Send a Direct Message
Access the drop down list of the people you are following.
Direct Message drop down list
Send direct messages from:
• The ‘message’ link on the profile page
• The reply icon from your direct messages
• The drop down box on the direct message inbox page
• The status update box using:
d + username + message