Twitter – Getting started

It seems strange doing a blog post about Twitter (it ‘being the new blogging’) when Blackpool does not seem to have really got its head around the idea of blogging yet!? However (with thanks to Darren Rowse and TwiTip) – here we go……

Twitter is the ‘new’ blogging – albeit micro-blogging in 140 characters or less! But how do you open an account and get started? The following explains how to get up and running. For a print-ready version of these notes download Twitter – Open an Account from Scribd.

Step 1: Go to http://twitter.com.

When you get to Twitter.com, you’ll see this page:

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Step 2: Click the Join the conversation! Green Box

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