- Creating a Twitter profile involves signing up with your real name and work email, choosing a username and password. You can then select interests to follow and accounts to follow. - Uploading a profile photo is optional. You can also find people you know through connections from email accounts and choose to follow contacts. - The profile allows you to add more information like a bio, location, website and header photo to build credibility. Tweets can then be posted and the search feature used to find other users, trends and topics. Settings allow customizing the profile further.

1. Creating a Twitter Profile
• Go to Twitter.com
• Sign up

2. • Sign up with real name
• Use work email ID
• Create individual password and Username

3. You can skip this step if you do not want it used

4. Click the “Let’s go!” button

5. • On upper right side, de-select the Select All box
• Check at least 3 interests, and click Continue

6. • Deselect all, and begin to check accounts to follow
• Check at least 5 and click “Follow 5 and continue”

7. • If you do not have a photo (.jpg or .png), skip this step for now
• If you have photo, click upload photo, find it, apply, save changes

8. • You can find people you know by clicking on “Gmail”, “Yahoo”, etc
• Check the contacts you want to follow
• You have the option to “Skip this step”, and continue building profile

9. Example of Managing contacts via Gmail – click “Accept” button

10. View of contact list – you can select all, or uncheck “Select All”
and check each contact individually

11. This is view from home tab of RSS feeds from those you are following
• To view your profile, click on the “photo icon” between “Search Twitter”
and the new “Tweet” box, then click “View profile”

12. • From profile, click on Edit profile
• Click on Add a profile photo, upload photo
• Once photo is uploaded, Apply (slide 15), then click Save changes
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14. • Click on “Add a header photo”
• Upoad .jpg or .png, click “Apply”, and Save changes

15. • It is recommended to create a “Bio”, add “location” and “website”
It adds credibility to your profile
• Click the “Edit profile” from your profile screen
• Highlight the boxes to add text details
• Save changes

16. Click on Tweet box, and to create your Tweet

17. Use the “Search Twitter” box to find people/profiles, skills, trends, etc
• Search using hashtag #IBM, #java and/or name ie: Lori Steele,
and/or handle ie: @ibminteractive

18. • To make changes to your Twitter profile, click picture icon
dropdown
• Go to “Settings” – from left column, choose box relevant to changes
you want to make