A Little Bit About Twitter: What’s Twitter All About?

As I said before, Twitter® is a micro blogging platform allows users to send tweets instantly to people whey following them. It is an incredibly powerful social media marketing tool if used correctly – and believe me: Many people on Twitter do not use it correctly – because in my opinion they didn’t define a purpose of using Twitter®...

such as marketing, supporting customers, event for just fun, so before I illustrate how to join Twitter®, I suppose you already define your purpose from using Twitter® and feel the power of it.

How to join Twitter®:

To join Twitter®, you have to visit Twitter's website from here, here is a media file illustrates the registration process, and I’ll comment at the tricks points:

At minute 1:05, there’s a Tip:

choose your User Name carefully because you can’t change it in the future, that name will be the link between you and all your followers. It must indicate your purpose, personality, and away from dangerous activates (like “virus” for example).

At minute 1:05, there’s another Tip:

the video jump to an already made account to shortage the sign up time, and continue.

At minute 2:30, you're now created your account at Twitter®, now it’s time to learn about your platform.

What is my Twitter® platform contains?

Tip #1: What's happening?

The holy question that Twitter® based on it, under this question you’ll find a box and a counter set as a default at 140, that box you’ll write your current activities to send to all your followers. The 140 referees to the limit of characters maximum to write in your massage, before clicking “update”.

Tip #2: the number of tweets you have sent:

Below of your User Name, you’ll see the number of your already sent tweets (but because you’re new you’ll see a zero).

Tip #3: the number users following:

It illustrate the number of twitters users following you, But what’s followers means? It means that some users interesting in what you provide or have common interests with you, so they following you to know everything you do or write. That number is very important because if you planning to marketing or other activities, you should increase this number.

Tip #4: the number users you follow:

As I explain at Tip #3, vice versa, number of twitters users you follow, the kind of that user depends on your common interests, the purpose of creating Twitter® account, and many other things, they like writers and you’re the reader. Be wise when you choose your follows.

Tip #5: the Direct massages:

As any normal e-mail account, you may want to send a private massage to a user or – in business – to any Clint, you can use this feature to do this, your other users don’t see this massages and there’s no limit for sending massages per day.

Finally:

I hope I’ve covered the most important tips at Twitter® join in and gave an overview about how to use it, and explain the means of different counts on it. Remember, if you only define your purpose from using Twitter®, go ahead, and you still not sure, wait for my next article. Thanks for reading and I’m here for any questions.