Wiley Twitter Tips, Tricks, and Tweets, 2nd Edition 978-0-470-62466-1 User Manual

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978-0-470-62466-1

Are you ready to share with the world select bits and pieces of your life, 140

characters (or less) at a time? I suspected as much. This means that you’re

ready to get started with Twitter, the microblogging service that has taken

the online world by storm. In this chapter, you begin, appropriately enough,

at the beginning by learning how to set up and sign in to a Twitter account.

Even if you’ve already got a Twitter account up and running, this chapter also

takes you through a few other crucial Twitter techniques, including changing

and resetting your Twitter password.

Setting Up Your Very Own Twitter Account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Signing In to Your Twitter Account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Viewing Twitter’s Current Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Changing Your Twitter Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Resetting Your Twitter Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Deleting Your Twitter Account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

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