Comments on: Getting Started On Twitter

By: Jazzy

Jazzy — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 06:56:22 +0000

This is soooooo foolish. Who cares about all this personal. Awe! get a life already. I really don’t get the point. Are we that boring with our world… ???

By: maurice bourget

maurice bourget — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:22:32 +0000

I would need a one, two, three step guideline to get started with twitter, I mean, not the one, two, three step sign-up, cause, that is already done.

By: Sarah Lewis

Sarah Lewis — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 19:47:55 +0000

Hi, Emma—When you are on Twitter and you’re looking at someone’s profile, there’s a gray button right below their picture (if they have one; the default avatar picture if they don’t). It will say either “Follow” or “Following” (depending on whether or not you’re currently following them).

If it says “Follow”, just click the button; it should update to say “Following”. It sometimes takes a few seconds. You’ll need to be logged in to Twitter for this to work, too.

If you’re still confused, let me know and I’ll take a quick video or something.

By: Emma.

Emma. — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 10:46:21 +0000

I KNOW all this.
But HOW DO I FOLLOW SOMEBODY???
It’s been a struggle to find out.
I sound like a complete total utter newb, I know.
Can anybody help me? :}

By: monica

monica — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:39:29 +0000

Thank you so much for this great information! I’ve only been blogging for a month and have so much to learn. I’ve asked people here and there about tweeter but this is the first time I see everything put together.

I will go through your other tweeter posts before I ask any questions. I do appreciate you going into the proper etiquette aspect. This is especially helpful to me as I often think of these things.

By: Amy Miyamoto

Amy Miyamoto — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 01:13:51 +0000

I have been on Twitter for a couple of months and have recently downloaded Tweetdeck and Twhirl. I would love to hear your opinions about one vs. the other, and also any technical tips you are willing to share about how to organize and streamline followers and tweets into different groups.
Thanks!

Amy
On Twitter @amymiyamoto

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Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:06:29 +0000

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By: Sarah Lewis

Sarah Lewis — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:19:42 +0000

@Infonote: Replying is kind of a quirky thing. You don’t reply to a tweet, you reply to a user, and you do it using the @ sign before their username.

For instance, if I posted a tweet you wanted to respond to, you would just send out a tweet of your own:
@bookchiq This is what I think....

The process is that simple, but it can get a little confusing because Twitter assumes that any reply is directed at the tweet sent right before the reply, and sometimes the person you’ve replied to has put out another tweet in the meantime.

However, it still works well enough to get people’s attention and show up in their “Replies” tab.