2015
Lynda
Jess Stratton
1:28
English

Learn how to use Twitter to find and engage with everyone from friends and business associates to celebrities and others. Author Jess Stratton explains the conventions and lingo of the microblogging platform, including tweets, retweets (RTs), Direct Messages (DMs), follows, mentions, hashtags, and more. She shows how to create an account, find people you know or who have shared interests, and write and read tweets, including tweets containing hashtags, images, links, and video. Plus, learn how to create lists of favorite tweets and use Twitter on the go on a mobile phone or tablet.

Introduction
Welcome
1. Understanding Twitter
Understanding Twitter and microblogging
Learning Twitter terminology
Navigating the interface
2. Getting Started
Signing up for a Twitter account
Following other users
Finding friends by uploading your contacts
Creating and viewing your Twitter profile
3. Composing Tweets
Composing a tweet
Inserting links into your tweets
Tweeting content from other sites
Adding a photo to your tweet
Including your location in your tweets
Understanding hashtags
Deleting, pinning, and sharing tweets
Protecting your tweets
4. Reading Tweets
Navigating an individual tweet
Viewing website summaries and following links
Marking a tweet as a favorite
Retweeting a tweet to your followers
Searching Twitter
5. Interacting with Tweets and Users
Viewing notifications about your tweets
Replying to a tweet
Mentioning another Twitter user in a tweet
Viewing a user's Twitter profile
Unfollowing, blocking, or muting a user
Using direct messages
6. Exploring Twitter Setttings
Changing account and notification settings
Viewing security and privacy settings
Deactivating your account and downloading your history
7. Going Beyond the Basics
Understanding trends
Creating lists of Twitter users
Using the Twitter mobile app
Conclusion
Next steps

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