Twitter for
Beginners
An online course
by Shelly Terrell

How Can Twitter Help Me?

Agenda
Review some of the basics!
Discover how to gain and keep
followers!
Answer questions!

Chat box question:
How often do you use
Twitter?
A. Only 1 time
B. 1 to 2 times a week
C. 3 to 4 times a week
D. Daily

Getting Started

How to Update
Click update!

Chat box questions:
What should you update?
How often should you
update?

You should:
Include links! (www….)
Ask questions!
Start conversations! (@bob)
Use hashtags! (#iranelection)
Be on topic! Be interesting!
Retweet! (rt@bob)

You should not:
Be vulgar or rude!
Forget to give credit for a link!
Always market yourself!
Always DM! (direct message)
Forget to reply!

How to Reply!

Write your reply!

How to direct message (DM)!
You put a “d” in front! No @!
Then username!

How to Retweet (RT)!
Find a good link or quote!

1. Write RT in front of the username
2. Copy & paste!
3.Click update!

Nice Profile!! Twitbacks.com

Useful tools
Search
Trending topics
Hashtags
Ex.
#musicmonday

Chat box question:
What questions do you
have about Twitter?

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