The document provides a comprehensive guide for beginners on how to navigate and use Twitter, including creating an account, updating status, searching for users, and managing direct messages. It details essential features such as replying to tweets, saving favorites, and customizing user profiles. The guide emphasizes the importance of bios for discoverability and outlines the steps to interact with others on the platform.

1. Twitter for Starters Learn Twitter Basics

2. How to Watch a video overview of Twitter Create a Twitter account Update your status (start twittering) Search for people with the same interests to follow Reply to someones tweet Save a tweet (favourite) to read later Direct message someone you are following

3. Open your web browser or Your Internet browser would normally be Internet Explorer or Firefox. If you have a Mac it will be Safari

4. Search for Twitter.com

5. Open Twitter.com

6. Twitter home page

7. Watch the video Watch the Common Craft video to get an overview of Twitter

8. Get started with Twitter

9. You need to: Decide and enter a username Remember you are creating an online identity Your password Your email address The words you see in the image Accept the conditions to save and continue

10. Fill in these fields Username Password Email address Image words Accept conditions

11. Go to Settings to enter: Name Username Email Time zone (drop down list) Web site (if you have one) Bio Language preference Then save the settings

12. Fill in these fields

13. Update your one line bio

14. Your bio Make sure you write something meaningful in your Bio so other can learn something about you. Bios are searchable.

15. Go back to the Home Page

16. Home page: Update your status and view tweets from people you follow

17. Update your status in 140 characters Update your status on your Home page

18. Search for people to follow The search tab is a the bottom of the home page

19. Search: enter key words of your interests to find other people

20. Decide who you want to follow Enter keywords of topics you want to follow This will return tweets by people who have used these words. Look at their bio to see who they are and who their followers are.

21. Click the follow sign to follow someone

22. Follow is changed to following

23. You can see who you are following here On the Home page Click to see who you are following

24. Read your tweets

25. Profile page: Your tweets You can see the tweets you have made here.

26. Reply to other people’s tweets

27. The @ symbol sends a reply This symbol before someones name sends a reply that Goes to their ‘reply’ tab. E.g. @starpath

28. Click the reply symbol This will place the ‘@’ symbol in the status update box before their name. Then type your reply

29. Reply to someone’s tweet by clicking the reply symbol

30. @name is inserted

31. This is where you can see replies to your tweets

32. Favourites

33. Save interesting tweets to read and reply to later

34. ‘Favourite’ a tweet by clicking the star This saves it into the ‘Favourites’ tab to go back and read when there is more time.

35. Read the tweets you have saved (favourites)

36. Your favourites here

37. Direct Messages These are private messages between you and one other person

38. Send or read direct messages Private messages are not for public viewing. An email is sent and the message is saved in the ‘ Direct Messages’ tab.

39. You can see Sent and Received Direct Messages here:

40. Send a Direct Message Access the drop down list of the people you are following.

41. Direct Message drop down list

42. Send direct messages from: The ‘message’ link on the profile page The reply icon from your direct messages The drop down box on the direct message inbox page The status update box using: d + username + message