One of the largest services for friends, family and co-workers to communicate online, Twitter has taken the world by storm over the past few months, but what is it?
Twitter’s soul purpose is to help you communicate one message to your friends, family and co-workers, what you are doing! While at the same time, letting you know what they are doing!
Twitter is free to use and simple to sign up, I will walk you through the process and get you started!
How to sign up to Twitter:
Visit www.twitter.com
Click on the words “Get Started – Join” which is located at the bottom of the front page
To register you will need to enter:
· Your Full name,
· A Username which you will go by, if you do not get your desired username, you may need to add an extra letter or number
· A password of at least 6 characters
· Your current email address
· The two separate words in the security box provided that have lines crossed through them. Please note you will need to type them as follows for example: match space
Click Register and you are signed up.
If you are using Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, Hotmail or MSN for your e-mails, at the next step, click the relevant tab on the left hand side, and then enter your e-mail address and password. This will show you a list of which of your friends have registered on Twitter and you can select to add them to your watching profile instantly!
Important
Unlike other sites, Twitter will not send any emails to your contacts from these lists without your permission unlike facebook and other services.
Once you have selected the relevant people, click the continue button at the bottom.
Now you will be given the option to send a request to any of your friends on your list for them to sign up and follow your Twitter. Go down the list and click on the email addresses and click the invite button at the bottom of the page when finished. Alternatively, below the invite button is a “skip this step” button.
On the next step are a number of high profile celebrities already Twittering and you can add them to your list to follow! Click Finish when you have done selecting or click the “skip this step button” below it!
