The document provides an overview of the key elements of a Twitter homepage, including: 1) The home button takes you to your Twitter feed where you can see tweets from those you follow. 2) The feed displays tweets in reverse chronological order and allows expanding/collapsing individual tweets. 3) The main profile summary shows your profile information and accounts you follow/followers. 4) The connect section shows interactions and mentions. The search bar searches Twitter. The profile button accesses your profile and private messages. New tweets can be composed in the blue button or below your tweet count.

1. A Tour of Your Twitter Homepage

2.  Anatomy of a Homepage
 Home button
 Feed
• Expanding Tweets
• Collapsing Tweets
 Main Profile Summary
 Connect
• Interactions
• Mentions
 Search Bar
 Profile Button
 Where to Compose a Tweet

3. Anatomy of a Homepage

4. Home Interactions Search Profile & New Tweet
Messages Feed
Main
Profile
Summary
When you sign in to Twitter, you will see a page like this.
We’ll learn about some key aspects of these Twitter elements.

5. Home Button

6. This is your homepage. If you see a blue light underneath this area,
It means you have tweets to view in your feed.

7. Feed
• Expanding Tweets
• Collapsing Tweets

8. The feed area displays tweets from you and your followers in reverse chronological
order. You can click on an individual tweet to see more detail about it...

9. …like this!

10. When you want to collapse tweets, click here.

11. Main Profile Summary

12. This clickable area displays information related to your profile: your profile page,
your tweets, users who follow you and those who you follow.

13. Connect
• Interactions
• Mentions

14. If you see a blue light under ‘Connect’, you should click on it.
There are a few reasons why a light sometimes appears here...

15. The interactions section of ‘Connect’ shows when you’ve been @mentioned,
followed by someone else or one of your tweets has been ‘favourited’.

16. To see only your @mentions, click on ‘Mentions’, just below the
‘Interactions’ tab. It shows instances of your username being mentioned.

17. Search Bar

18. This is the search button.
You can use it to search for people, words or categories of information.

19. Google is the best way to search usernames and keywords but
the search function is a good way to save hashtag searches.

20. Profile Button

21. This is your profile button. You can click on it to view or change your
profile information or see private messages sent directly to you.

22. This is the display you’ll see if you click the profile button.
We’re going to check the private or ‘direct’ messages.

23. A blue circle beside a message means it is unread. To read and
reply to it, click on the message.

24. Where to
Compose a Tweet

25. This blue button is one of the places on your homepage where you can
compose a new tweet. (The other place is beneath your tweet count.)

26. Congratulations!
While this is not an exhaustive list of the features and actions
available with your new Twitter account, hopefully it helps you
to begin to make your way. Best wishes!