2014
Lynda
Maria Langer
3:03
English
Join the 140-character communication revolution. Important conversations play out every day on Twitter and this fun and fast social media platform offers one of the few ways to directly engage with celebrities, companies, media outlets, and even political figures like President Obama (@BarackObama). Learn how to get up and running on Twitter and start engaging in a new kind of conversation. Maria Langer shows you how to set up an account; read and write tweets; add images, links, and tags to your tweets; and interact with other users via sending replies, using mentions, favoriting tweets, and sending direct messages. She also shares her insider etiquette tips for tweets and retweets, and shows how to customize your privacy settings as well as personalize your feed.
Introduction
Welcome
Using the exercise files
Understanding the Twitter interface changes
1. Understanding Twitter
Understanding what Twitter is
Understanding how Twitter works
2. Getting Started
Setting up a Twitter account
Following your first five Twitter users
Connecting with your email contacts via Twitter
Creating a Twitter profile
Signing in to Twitter
Viewing your home page
3. Reading and Writing Tweets
Reading Tweets
Writing Tweets
Including a link in a Tweet
Viewing images
Adding images
Location tagging a Tweet
Using hashtags
Deleting a Tweet
4. Interacting with Other Users
Learning about another user
Following other users
Replying to a Tweet
Sending a direct message
Using mentions
Listing your Twitter friends
Muting a user
Unfollowing a user
Blocking users
5. Working with Tweets You Like
Retweeting
Marking a Tweet as a favorite
6. Setting Twitter Options
Changing basic account options
Setting security and privacy options
Changing your password
Fine-tuning email notifications
Editing your profile
Customizing Twitter's appearance
Setting web notification options
7. Going Beyond the Basics
Using the lists feature
Searching Twitter
Exploring Twitter's personalized content
Connecting Twitter to your mobile phone
Using the Twitter mobile app
Conclusion
Next steps
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