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Project Starburst
- 1. Project Starburst: a guideto Twitter Twitter has many other functions and uses but these are the basic steps to getting started with your account for Project Starburst. Twitter will give you the ability to get more information out to the public quickly and efficiently. You will find that more people will respond and read your tweets because of the size and speed of the information. Many businesses and non-profits use Twitter to get information out there and increase their sales, and donations, and gain new volunteers. Have fun! Find your own voice and share what you care about! Some of the basics… Twitter is a social media website/application that allows for quick updates featuring 140 character messages called ‘tweets’ Other users can follow you to see what information you ‘tweet’
- 2. Tweets from otherusers you follow will be displayed on your homepage How to access your account… Go to www.twitter.com Go to the sign in box and provide your email and password: project12 This will bring you to the twitter homepage How to send a tweet… Click the yellow ‘tweet’ button located on the top right hand side of your browser A text box will pop up where you can type out your tweet
- 3. Once you arefinished tweeting, press the yellow ‘tweet’ button to make your tweet public To attach a photo to your tweet, click the ‘add photo’ button located in on the lower left hand side of the text box How to view and edit your profile… From the homepage, click either your name (Project Starburst) or the yellow sunburst icon From here you can see what your profile looks like to others, including your own tweets To edit your profile, click on the grey edit profile button located in the upper right hand corner
- 4. The edit profilearea gives you the option to change your photo, location, biography, and color scheme How to interact with other users… To send a tweet to a specific user, type their username, preceded by an @ sign Retweeting is the reposting of another user’s tweet. To retweet a user, click the double arrow button underneath the text of the tweet. Some users may not let other accounts retweet them, so sometimes the button may not work