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What is Twitter?

Twitter is a social network that allows you and anyone else who has a twitter account to communicate with each other.

How is it useful?

 With Twitter you can communicate with family friends and groups such as a radio station or band with information as they post it.

Is it ‘better’ than Facebook.

I use both frequently and after a long time on Facebook you will get lots of junk sent to you but unlike Facebook, with Twitter you only use posts with no games or quizzes.

If there are anymore questions I will edit this page as soon as I can with useful information, just post a comment with your question.

Signing up for Twitter

First of all you must go to http://twitter.com/ and sign up. The only information you need to give is your full name and email. They can’t sell this information without your consent under privacy laws and will get in legal trouble if they do (like Facebook did). You will need a username, so if you’re name was John Smith you could make your username johnsmith.

Your URL: http://twitter.com/johnsmith.

Once you click “Create my account”, you will be sent a confirmation email in which you just have to click on the link in the email sent to you.

Once on Twitter you can tell Twitter what you are doing by typing in the box what you would like to tell them in less than 140 characters. To add a friend (or follow) someone you can type in their username, which you must find out, and click ‘Follow’ to see every time what they have to say on Twitter.

You can change your picture and background but the pictures must be less than 700 kb and 800 kb.

After using Twitter for a while you probably find it useful for communicating and find it easy to use. Please note there are many other uses for Twitter but these are the basics you need to know.

Some people may follow you and you may not like that so you can block the person as well people can send you inappropriate messages or try and sell you something. I just block these people. Happy tweeting.