This may be simple for many of you, but for the rest, here is a quick tutorial on creating your very own twitter account.  We’ll tell you how to use it in the coming posts.

What is Twitter?

Twitter is a micro-blogging platform that is growing in user numbers and uses each day.

The next steps are a quick guide to creating your very own personal or business Twitter account

STEP 1

Enter www.twitter.com into your browser and hit enter

STEP 2

Now that you are on the site, Click on the big Sign Up button on the site. Example below

Twitter Signup button

STEP 3

You will be displayed with the registration page, example below.  If you are creating this for yourself, enter your full name and then choose a username.  The username becomes the name people will search for you by or enable them to easily follow you.  If you are a company creating an account, use your company name instead of personal name.  (You can create 2 twitter accounts, one personal and one company).  Complete all relevant details and click CREATE MY ACCOUNT

STEP 4

Your Account has been created already, but to start benefitting, start searching for topics of interest.  In this example, we have searched for Thirst4work, results displayed below

the results are displayed.  To follow this user, click the follow button and start receiving all the useful advice straight into your twitter feed.  You can repeat this for as many interests as you have.

Click on the Twitter icon at the top of the website and get taken to your twitter stream.  Explore and learn.