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How to Create a Twitter Account

This document provides a step-by-step guide on how to set up a Twitter account, including entering personal information and finding friends. It also explains key Twitter shorthand such as 'RT' for re-tweet, '@(username)' for addressing specific users, and '#subject' for tracking topics. Once the account is created, users can start tweeting and following others.

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How to Create a Twitter Account

This document provides a step-by-step guide on how to set up a Twitter account, including entering personal information and finding friends. It also explains key Twitter shorthand such as 'RT' for re-tweet, '@(username)' for addressing specific users, and '#subject' for tracking topics. Once the account is created, users can start tweeting and following others.

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How to Setup a Twitter Account

Need to send your members a breaking-news update on the legislature or call them
to action on an issue before the school board? Twitter is a free, easy-to-use program
that allows you to create “tweets,” which are 140-character messages that show up
on the twitter pages of your “followers.”

How to set up a Twitter account

• Go to [Link] and click on the “Get Started” button.


• Enter your name, desired username, password, and email address.
• Type two words shown in the picture into the box below. This is simply to make
sure that you are human and not a computer program trying to create a spam
account.
• Click on “create my account.”
• On the next page, you can find friends who are already on Twitter. You can enter
your gmail, aol, yahoo, hotmail, or msn login information to allow Twitter to
automatically search for your friends, or you can click on “skip this step” at the
bottom of the page.
• The next page shows you a list of the most popular twitter users you may want to
follow. By default, all these users are selected, so remember to un-check users that
you don’t care to have added to your account.
• Click on the green “finish” button on the bottom of the page to create your
account.

Once your account is created, you can start searching for friends and colleagues to
follow and you can begin writing tweets for others to follow. While the interface is
easy to use, there is some shorthand that you need to know.

• “RT” means re-tweet. You use this much like you use “FWD” when you’re writing
emails. It means that you are passing along a message from someone else.
• “@(username)” means that the message is about or for a specific person. This will
also create a link within your tweet, so that when someone clicks on the username
they can view all of that user’s tweets.
• “#subject” means the word that follows the hash mark (#) (no spaces) is the
subject of the tweet. When multiple people are tweeting about a specific topic, this
tool allows you to easily track the conversation. Using the hash mark creates a link
so that clicking on the subject will allow a user to view all other tweets on the same
subject.

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