Wiley Twitter Tips, Tricks, and Tweets, 2nd Edition 978-0-470-62466-1 User Manual
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Twitter Tips, Tricks, and Tweets
6.
Click Create my account. Twitter does just that, and it then offers to look for your
friends on services such as AOL and Hotmail.
7.
You learn how to do this in Chapter 4, so click Skip this step. Twitter displays a list of
famous, semifamous, or just plain infamous people who are on Twitter and asks if you
want to follow them.
8.
Again, you learn how to follow the famous in Chapter 4, so click Skip this step. Do
not click Finish here, or else you’ll end up following all 20 people! Twitter finalizes your
account and drops you off on your Twitter home page.
Signing In to Your Twitter Account
With your shiny, new Twitter account fully formed and primed for action, you’re ready to venture
into the Twitterverse. Twitter is kind enough to deliver you to your home page right after it creates
your account, so if that’s where you are now you can skip ahead.
However, after you end your browser session and start a new one, you’ll need to sign in to your
Twitter account once again. Follow these steps to not only sign in, but also to tell Twitter to
remember your credentials so you don’t have to bother with this again (at least when using the
same browser on the same computer):
1.
Send your trusty Web browser to https://twitter.com/login. You can also click the
Login link that appears on just about every Twitter page.
2.
Type your Twitter username in the Username text box.
3.
Type your Twitter password in the Password text box.
4.
Select the Remember me check box. This tells Twitter to add a cookie to your
computer that saves your username and password, which enables you to log in
automatically in the future.
5.
Click Sign in.
6.
If you started off in some other Twitter page, Twitter redisplays that page, so click
Home to get to your account’s home page.
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