Twitter for Beginners
Ahuvah Berger www.twitter.com/ahoova

What Is Twitter
Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging
service that enables its users to send and read other
users' updates known as tweets (Wikipedia 26/03/08)

How Can I Use Twitter?
Engage in Conversations
Be Entertained and Entertain Your Followers
Get the Latest News
Ask Your Community for Answers
Get the latest Links to Relevant Blog Posts, Articles,
Viral Videos

Getting Started
Go to www.twitter.com

Creating your Twitter Personality
Username
Avatar
Biography
Link
Background

My Profile

Finding People to Follow
Blogs
Importing Friend’s email addresses
Search.Twitter.Com
Favorites
MrTweet.com
WeFollow.com

Who I Don’t Follow
They lock their updates
They tweet as a company, not an individual
There are no “@s” in their tweetstream
They have a beefcake photo
They are clearly spam (get rich, etc.)

Start Tweeting

Twitter Conversations
Share Information, Breaking News,
Updates
Answer Questions & Ask Questions
Reach out to people with similar focuses
or interests
Do Not Fear the Twitterstream

Twitter Replies
You can reply to any tweet you see on Twitter, just
click on the reply arrow located bottom right of their
tweet

Twitter Conversation

Tweeting to Others
‘Hit reply and @username’ is at the beginning of
the Tweet
Place the ‘@username’ in the middle or the End of
the Tweet
Place multiple @usernames in the Tweet
If you don’t want it to be public you can send the
user a Direct Message (DM)

Re-Tweeting Others
Convention is to credit the user by starting your Tweet with ‘RT @username’ and a
‘Via @username when it has been retweeted more than twice.

Favorites
Favorite tweets that you want to bookmark, share with others at a later date.
It also enables your followers another way to find interesting new people to follow

Trending Topics & The Hashtag
When people are sending tweets about or from certain events or
about specific topics they put ‘#location’ or ‘#topic’ at the end of
their tweet.

Other Sites
Bit.ly – shortens your links so that you have
enough room to write and share a link
TwitPic – Email or Upload images to your
twitterfeed
Blip.fm – Share music with your friends
Topify.com – Email notifications of new
followers

Platforms For Twitter

Go Tweet!
Find me on twitter: @ahoova