Signing up on Twitter is easy and you don't have to be a Belieber - you can get good quality, useful content by knowing what to do. This short presentation shows you how.

1. How to sign up on Twitter
from
businessbankingcoach.com
in association with

2. You’ve heard of Twitter, right?
You’ve heard that
businessbankingcoach.com has a
great Twitter feed that gives you only
relevant news that helps you get the
job done
But you think signing up is a bit scary -
‘cos it’s new!

3. After all, you don’t want to know what
Justin Bieber had for breakfast today..
....or who Kim Kardashian is married to
this week....
(at least, we hope you don’t!)
but don’t worry, Twitter is anything you
want it to be – you’re in charge

4. Maybe you feel that it’s only for young
people?

5. Like this maybe....

6. Not true at all
Let’s take a minute to show you how to
sign up on Twitter and how to follow us
Once you’ve done that, you can follow
anyone else you like (including Kim
Kardashian if that’s your thing)

7. But before we show you how to sign-up, some
Twitter terminology;
When you decide that you want know what a
particular person or company is saying on Twitter,
you “follow” them (we’ll show you how to do this
shortly)
When someone you follow posts a message it’s
called a “tweet” and it will appear in your timeline
on your account
A timeline is just a list of the tweets from people or
companies that you follow, arranged in time order
(hence the name, timeline)

8. A tweet will usually (but not always) have a link at
the end of it. That’s so that you can read more
about the topic of the tweet if you want to.
This is what a tweet might look like
So just click on the link if you want to read more. If
you don’t, just ignore the tweet and eventually it
will drop off the end of your timeline

9. If we had received that tweet in our timeline
and we thought it might be of interest to our
followers, we can forward it to them – that is
called a “re-tweet” – we do a lot of that because
we come across so many interesting comments
in our timeline
Let’s move on to how you sign-up.......

10. So, you’re on our website and
you’ve logged in using either
your course code from the last
page of your Learner Guide, or
the login code supplied to you by
the Bank or, if you don’t already
have a code, you’ve registered
for our premium content –
excellent, a wise choice if we
may say so.

11. There are two options;
You can follow us to get relevant
South African business news
updates as they happen
You can follow us to get content
updates, tips, techniques and links to
other useful information

12. These options are linked to separate
Twitter feeds so you can choose to
follow only one or both.
If you choose to follow both Twitter
feeds, the process is slightly different
for the first sign-up as you have to
open a Twitter account. The second
sign-up is much easier as you’ll use the
same account.

13. On the next slide is what you see on
the blog page – we’re using Credit
Assessment Tips for this example but
the Business News blog page looks
very much the same
To do this you click on the tab to view
the blog page that you want to follow
So, to follow us on Twitter, you need to
sign-up and open a Twitter account

14. You’re going to click on the Twitter link

15. That takes you to our Twitter page
You need to complete these three boxes
and click on the sign up button

16. Then you are taken to a page which
asks you to choose a user name (you’ll
see some suggestions) and a
password
Finally, click the yellow button on that
page that looks like this
and you’re done

17. If you have an iPhone, iPad or iPod
Touch, download the app from the App
Store to get updates automatically
An app is also available for Android-
powered devices and for Nokia and
Blackberry phones from their App Stores

18. If you don’t have a mobile device – the
only way currently to get updates is to visit
our pages at
www.twitter.com/BBCoachBizNews
and/or
www.twitter.com/BusBankCoach