Transcript How to Use Twitter

How to Use Twitter
Creating a Profile
 First go to www.twitter.com and you’ll see this box:
Creating a Profile
 Add your information. Math Coach Rod Willis is going
to be our example for this training.
Creating a Profile
 After you click sign up for Twitter
you’ll come to this page. Here you
can choose your username
(Rwillis_GCPS) you can change it
later if it is available.
 Uncheck the boxes and click create my
account.
Setting Up a Profile
 Click next
Setting Up a Profile
 It’s going to ask you to add friends
so you can follow them. Here we’ll
add 3 friends (the minimum till you
can go on to the next section)
@DrRickAtha
@DrDarrenDennis
@LRod457
Setting Up a Profile
 Once you follow them, their
last tweet will display.
 Click next.
Setting Up a Profile
 You’ll add at least 3 more people on the next page.
@OOLS_457
@Jperkins_ESOL
@Cdecker_ools
Setting Up a Profile
 They’ll want you to add more
people to follow. At the
bottom is a skip. Click that to
finish adding people.
Setting Up a Profile
 Here they’ll want you to upload a
picture of yourself and type up a
small bio (i.e. Math Coach for
Buffalo Jones Elementary School).
 If you don’t want to do this step
right away, you can click skip again.
Your New Account
 Here is your landing
page.
 You can read the
tweets from people
you follow.
 You can compose a
tweet from here.
Learning the Menu Bar
Takes you to your landing page.
This is where you can see if someone has tagged
you in a tweet, favorite tweets, new followers, etc.
You can see who you’re following activity in
regards to following other or favorite tweets.
Take you to your page as others would
see it.
Search for users or trends.
Settings
 Here you can get direct messages.
 Setup keyboard shortcuts.
 Change the look of your profile by
clicking on settings and then
“Design”.
Compose a tweet
 You can compose tweets from two
locations.
 On the left side there is a box displaying
your tweet count, who you are following
and who is following you. Underneath
that is the box where you can compose a
tweet (a limit of 140 characters including
spaces).
 The blue button will allow you to
compose a Tweet from anywhere on the
page. Click it and a dialog box will pop up
where you can compose your Tweet (140
character limit as well).
Other Elements
Allows you to reply to another
person’s tweet.
Reposts a tweet on your feed by
someone else called a Retweet.
Adds the tweet to a favorite so you can
refer back to it at a later time.
Other Elements
 Twitter also will suggest people
for you to follow. Sometimes they
are local people or will be
suggested based off of your
usage.
 Twitter will also track “trends”
which are popular subjects
people are tweeting about, often
accompanying a hashtag (#).
Questions?
 Twitter is a simple tool that will allow you to connect
with professionals locally and around the world. It can
be a very useful tool if used right. Ensure you keep
your password safe, complicated and secure to
prevent any unwanted tweets to go out to your
followers to see.
 If you have questions send me a tweet @OOLS_457