Twitter starter guide
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This document provides a basic guide to using Twitter, including how to create an account, customize your profile, post tweets, engage with other users, and additional tools and resources. Key aspects are creating a username and profile, uploading an avatar photo, composing and sharing tweets of 140 characters or less, following other users, and using hashtags to join conversations on topics. The guide recommends engaging with others respectfully and regularly tweeting to build followers over time.
Twitter starter guide
- 1. A Basic Guide • Go to: http://www.twitter.com • Tweep or Twit: a Twitter user • Create account: username, password & email • Tweet: using Twitter to send text message address. ( All can be modified) • Follower: a tweep who tracks your tweets • Account: Online Bio (be creative), Web Address • Shorten URL: use a URL trimming site (blog/website) and Location. • Re-Tweet or RT: resending another twit’s tweet • Picture: Avitar upload picture (no bigger • DM: direct message in private to a specific twit than 700k, preferrably square) • @ reply: sent to a specific tweep but visible to all • Design: Default background, or your own • #: hash mark designating topic as in #genealogy custom size. (1280px by 824px) • Don’t spam, don’t oversell or over-promote • TwitPic http://twitpic.com share photos • Be welcoming, friendly, listen • Twiddeo http://beta.twiddeo.com share videos • Get rid of the ego – engage others • Filetwt http://www.filetwt.com free file sharing • Limit tweets and pause between tweets • TweetLater http://www.tweetlater.com • Humor and snark in moderation schedule tweets • Same tweet time – regularity builds followers • TweetDeck http://tweetdeck.com lets you tweet, • Educate, inform – don’t lecture retweet, DM, shorten URLS, display all followers, • Retweet others especially new twits DMs etc. • Be human, be you • twitterfeed http://twitterfeed.com tweet blog posts • wefollow http://wefollow.com ,the most popular • Alltop http://alltop.com Alltop is an “online people on Twitter by tag usage. magazine rack” of popular topics. • Twellow http://www.twellow.com yellow pages • Shareaholic http://www.shareaholic.com Share for Twitter what you are viewing on Twitter. • Nearby Tweets http://nearbytweets.com a • Digg http://digg.com/ Best rated articles, videos geography–centric social tool for networking and pictures as voted by community. • Twitter Search http://search.twitter.com search • Your Blog Share your blog posts on twitter. by keyword or topic • Other Great networks Slideshare (Presentations), • WhoShouldIFollow http://whoshouldifollow.com Youtube (videos), Delicious (Popular bookmarks) suggestions based on keyword and network • Your lifestyle Events, Quotes,Questions,etc... Web: www.blazewebstudio.co.za Blog: www.blazewebstudio.co.za/marketing_guide /BlazeWebStudio /geoffreygordon @geoffreygordon Innovative Ideas Distinc tive Design We help market your business off and online|© Blaze Web Studio 2008 - 2010