The document provides a beginner's guide to signing up and getting started on Twitter, explaining how to create an account, follow other users, upload a profile photo and bio, and understand basic Twitter functions like retweets, mentions, hashtags, replies, and direct messages. Key aspects of the Twitter interface like the timeline and interactions page are also overviewed to help new users navigate the platform.

1. How to sign up and get started on
A beginner's how-to guide by @camila_espina

2. 1. Go to the twitter website and fill out initial
sign up fields:

3. 2. Choose an available username and create
account
*twitter will
automatically let you
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know which username is
available.
*Your username is also
your “twitter handle.”

4. 3. Twitter will provide a basic functions
walkthrough:

5. *twitter will prompt you to
follow popular celebrities or
brands to get started.
*to follow simply click this
icon.
*”following” means that
you will receive the
messages people tweet and
be able to read them in
your “timeline”
*accounts with this symbol
simply mean that it is a
verified entity – for
example, that is the “real”
CNN twitter account

6. *This is what it looks like when
you’re already following another
user.
*This is what it looks like when
you don’t follow a user.
*This is what it looks like when you
put your cursor over the “following”
button – if you click, you will
“unfollow” that user and won’t be
receiving their tweets anymore.

7. 4. Search contacts and start following!
*If you clicked “skip this step”
when twitter suggested following
popular accounts, a new window
will appear prompting you to find
people you want to follow.
*You can also search for your
contacts from
Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail and AOL.

8. 5. Upload a picture and fill out your bio

9. Tweet box: where you’ll
compose your tweets
*This is how your twitter “home” page will look like

10. Your name and
profile picture *This is your “timeline”
How many
tweets you’ve
posted, how
many people
you’re
following and
how many
people follow
you
Trending topics

11. *to view your interactions click here
*your interactions show the latest people who’ve:
- Started following you.
-“Retweeted” one of your posts.
-“Mentioned” you in a tweet.

12. What is a “retweet”?
*A retweet is sharing a tweet. You can share someone’s tweet or
they can share yours.
*There are 2 ways to retweet someone:
1. Put your cursor over someone’s tweet and the “Expand”
“Reply” “Retweet” “Favorite” buttons will appear, click retweet.

14. What is a “retweet”?
2. Copy the tweet you want to retweet into your tweet box, place an “RT” and @(the
twitter handle of the person you’re retweeting).
*Retweeting this way lets you add a comment to the tweet you’re sharing – add it
before the RT.

15. What is a ”mention”?
* A mention is when you place an “@” before someone’s twitter handle in a tweet.
* When you mention someone, they receive a notification.
* Additionally, it will create a link from your post to their twitter profile.
* A great way to connect!

16. What is a “hashtag”?
According to twitter …

17. What is a “reply”?
*When you click the “reply” button on someone’s tweet, twitter will
automatically mention the original tweet poster and a conversation
thread will be created:

18. What is a “DM”?
* DM stands for “direct message,” a “private” message between you and someone
else.
*You can only send a direct message to someone you follow that follows you back.

19. Anatomy of a tweet
#hashtag
@mention Link: tweets are a great
way to share links to all
sorts of content.