Twitter is a social media platform that allows users to post and read short messages known as tweets. To create a Twitter account, a user provides basic information and chooses a username. They can then follow other accounts and post tweets that may include hashtags to help them be discovered and join relevant conversations. Users can also connect their Twitter account to Facebook, which allows tweets to automatically be posted to their Facebook profile wall.
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1. Brief Of Twitter
2. Opening Account On Twitter
3. Twitter Handle - # Tags
4. Following Friends and Celebrities
5. Twitting On twitter
6. Connecting Twitter Account With
Facebook
3. 1.Brief of Twitter
Twitter is an online social networking
service.
Twitter has become internationally
identifiable by its signature bird logo
It enables users to send and read short 140-
character messages called “Tweets".
Registered users can read and post tweets,
but those who are unregistered can only read
them.
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Users can tweet via the Twitter website,
compatible external applications (such
as for smartphones), or by SMS
available in certain countries.
Users access Twitter through the
website interface, SMS or mobile
device app.
7. Step 4:
Either you can enter your Phone
number or you can just skip the step.
8. Step 5: Choose a suitable Username and
click Next :
Step 6: Final page ; let’s Go!
9. Step 7: Choose your interest and continue …
Step 8: you can select and follow &
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10. Step 9:Add your picture for display and
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Step 10: Your Twitter Account is ready!
Once you are on your home page, it
asks you to confirm your e-mail.
11. 3.Twitter Handle - # Tags
The # symbol, called a hashtag, is used to
mark keywords or topics in a Tweet. It was
created organically by Twitter users as a way
to categorize messages.
Using hashtags to categorize Tweets by
keyword:
People use the hashtag symbol # before a
relevant keyword or phrase (no spaces) in
their Tweet to categorize those Tweets and
help them show more easily in Twitter
Search.
12. Clicking on a hashtagged word in any
message shows you all other Tweets marked
with that keyword.
Hashtags can occur anywhere in the Tweet –
at the beginning, middle, or end.
Hashtagged words that become very popular
are often Trending Topics.
For Example:
13. 4.Following Friends & Celebrities
Follow the people you want to connect
with either by entering the ID in the
search bar or by entering the name on
the top right of the screen.
Follow some rules:
1. Find The Right Target.
Tom Hanks? Too hard. He follows 27
people. One for every Oscar he’s won.
Spencer Pratt? Follows 80,000. That’s do-able.
14. 2. Do Not Engage.
People think that if they just tweet to
celebrities, the celebrity will discover the
blossoming personality flowering inside
them and add them immediately.
15. 5. Twitting On twitter
Twitter has been compared to a web-
based Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client.
As a social network, Twitter revolves
around the principle of followers. When
you choose to follow another Twitter
user, that user's tweets appear in reverse
chronological order on your main
Twitter page.
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If you follow 20 people, you'll see a mix of
tweets scrolling down the page: breakfast-
cereal updates, interesting new links, music
recommendations, even musings on the future
of education.
To tweet some message on your timeline, go
on the top right corner of your home page and
click on “Tweet” or Just write your message in
the available space as shown below:
17. 6.Connecting TwitterAccount With
Facebook
Log in to the Twitter account you want to
associate with your Facebook profile.
Go to your Settings menu's Apps tab.
Click Connect to Facebook.
If you are not already logged in to Facebook,
then you will be prompted to enter your
Facebook login credentials. Enter your
credentials and click Log in to sign in to
Facebook.
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You will then receive a prompt explaining that
Twitter will receive certain information from
your Facebook account. In order to continue,
you must select “Okay.”
You will then be prompted to select the
privacy settings for who will see your Tweets
and Retweets posted to your Facebook wall. It
is set to friends by default.
Click “Okay” to complete the process.
Your Tweets and Retweets will now post to
your profile Facebook wall and your username
will be displayed there as well.