What is Twitter - A Beginners Manual

Got a friend who's ready to take the Twitter plunge? Try this handy beginner's guide to the real-time social network.
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A publicly identifiable name that helps differentiate you from everyone else on Twitter. A hashtag is a clickable identifier that helps users find a public discussion about a subject.

The Beginner's Guide to Twitter

Want a Justin Bieber fan to read your tweet? End it with the hashtag Bieber. Want to show that you either like or dislike Donald Trump? Want everyone on Earth to hate you? These are the short, character messages with which you further your personal brand. Those are the only two types of people on Twitter. Direct messages or DMs are private messages that can only be seen by yourself and the recipient.

But what do I tweet?

They were invented purely for the transfer of uninvited penis pictures. As a rule, the higher your follower count, the better a person you are. This is how you respond to tweets.


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Then complain about being blocked. This is what people claim happened to them whenever they accidentally tweet a picture of their penis in public instead of DMing it. A parody account in no way affiliated with the actor Bill Murray. This is a terrible collection of weak observations and stolen homilies, designed to single out anyone who retweets them as someone who deserves to spend an eternity being punched in the nose in hell. A blue tick that tells you the user is either an A-list celebrity, a respected authority on an important subject or a BuzzFeed employee. A tweet can be anything at all — a status-like update like on Facebook for example:.

This is where you can type in your tweet, and also the option to add an image, location, GIF or poll.

The Beginner’s Guide to Twitter

On a computer, you'll have to find and save the image you want to tweet first, before clicking the camera icon to search your hard drive for it. Twitter now lets you tweet up to seconds of video. Simply press the camera icon under the new tweet field and then choose the camcorder icon. Press and hold the red button to record.

Adding a location is handy if you are somewhere and tweeting about that place, like if you want to tweet a picture of the huge dinosaur at the Natural History Museum. Simply click the location pin icon. A GIF is a moving image made out of a few stills, and can be added much like an image can to a tweet. Twitter provides a library of a few popular ones for you to start with.


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You can also tweet a poll question to your followers, though these are usually more popular with large companies or personalities who have many thousands of followers. You can do one if you want though!


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Simply click on poll, type your question and then a minimum of two or maximum of four answers. You can set the poll to run for any length from five minutes to a week. Click on the fourth icon along on the tweet window, which is the poll icon:. Twitter is a global social media network, and it shows you what is trending around the world.

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You can choose whether or not to allow Twitter to tailor trends for you or by location. If you click on any of the trends, like in the above list, you'll get taken to a timeline of only tweets that use that hashtag.

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You can send private direct messages to people on Twitter. However, in Settings you can change this default so that any Twitter user can message you. Direct messages are a quick and easy way to effectively send someone an email style message, and this used to be restricted to characters like public tweets. However, Twitter has removed this limit now, so your messages can be much longer now — up to 1, characters per message.

With new updates to the app and that's the case with the most recent version.

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You probably won't read what all the changes are but you might want to change the privacy settings as Twitter will now track your behaviour outside of the social network and store this data for 30 days. To adjust your privacy settings follow the above steps and before after selecting Personalisation and data there are various things you can switch off like Personalised ads and Share data with select partners.

Moments is a feature relatively new to Twitter. Click on Moments at the top of your browser or tap the Lightning bolt icon on the Twitter app to view them.