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Create an Account

Create an Account. Add your friends from your contacts. Pick who you want to send an invitation. What the invitation says. A few celebrities you can choose to follow. What is twitter all about?. How to use Twitter First Steps in using Twitter Tweet Something you say on twitter Tweeple

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Create an Account

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  1. Create an Account

  2. Add your friends from your contacts

  3. Pick who you want to send an invitation.

  4. What the invitation says

  5. A few celebrities you can choose to follow.

  6. What is twitter all about? • How to use Twitter • First Steps in using Twitter • Tweet • Something you say on twitter • Tweeple • People on twitter • Tweetup • When Tweeple meet in person.

  7. What are @replies and mentions? An @reply is any Twitter update that begins with @username A mention is any Twitter update that contains @username in the body of the tweet

  8. How do replies and mentions work? All tweets containing @username are collected for you, accessible by a link in your sidebar.  Click on your user name to see all replies made to you, and mentions of your user name.

  9. Once you have a following

  10. Who is following you?

  11. Who is this person?

  12. Yep, I want to block her.

  13. She is history!

  14. What is a direct message? (DM) In addition to public updates and @replies, you can send followers private tweets, called direct messages, too.  If someone is following you, you can send a direct message from the web via the "message" link on the profile page.

  15. More How to twitter • Search.Twitter.com • Watch replies for a Twitter user that is not you. • Retweet or RT • When you see a tweet you really like, you can "retweet" it. • The idea is that if @foo has 100 followers and @bar has 100 different followers and @fooretweets @bar's tweet, the idea is magnified, and may go viral.

  16. How to Re-Tweet • So if his original message looks like • jonmharvey: beware, 540 is closed northbound at Rogers due to a big accident • I could simply copy and paste it, sending out a message like this: • RT @jonmharvey: 540 is closed northbound at Rogers due to a big accident • See how that works? You can do it by hand by adding the "RT" and the "@"(which tells Twitter and its many clients that the following word is a Twitter name and makes it easily clickable for followup)

  17. Twitter #Hashcodes • Sometimes you'll see a tweet like • Having fun at #mix09 • or • bill gates mosquitoes / unleashed on #ted audience / where is the 'green' deet#haiku • The hashcode is an informal way to "tag" something to a category or categories. • For example, the second tweet there refers to both the Ted conference and marks the tweet as a Haiku. (Haiku on Twitter are called "Twaiku" but that's pretty geeky. ;) • Hashcodes can help you be social at a conference like #oscon or #mix09 but they can also create informal "chat rooms" like for the show #lost or to find folks that share a common interest like: • any #women out there who are #runners? Trying to get some more ideas for my blog.

  18. Tiny URLs • Since you've only got 140 characters for a Tweet, it's really important that you not share large URLs. Nearly everyone on Twitter will use a URL shrinking service like http://bit.ly or http://is.gd or http://tinyurl.com. Funny, TinyUrl is positively HUGE! • Make sure your client will automatically shrink URLs. Most do.

  19. Add links to photos with yfrog.com

  20. You see the tweet

  21. And Follow the link

  22. Integration with Facebook • There's a Twitter Facebook application that you can add to your Facebook Profile so that your Facebook Status is updated with your Tweets. • This is fun as it allows topics to fire up inside Facebook and lets folks who aren't on Twitter get in on the conversation.

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