Twitter is a social media site that allows you to share your current experiences with other users. It acts as a virtual bulletin board where people post updates, tweets, and retweets about their daily lives. You can follow celebrities, news, or your friends and family. It is often used as a platform for celebrities to share their thoughts, opinions, and even their personal lives. On Twitter, you have the option to follow others, send a direct message to someone, or "retweet" what someone else has posted. Building your own Twitter account can be an overwhelming task if you aren't sure of what you're doing. This lesson will provide you with the tools to create a Twitter account and how to use it to grow your business or personal brand. Start the video to begin your tutorial and proceed with the lesson below.
Go to twitter.com/signup. and click on “Sign Up” to begin the process. You’ll be asked to enter information such as your name, email address, phone number and age of birth.
After you sign up for Twitter, you’ll want to customize your profile. This pertains to picking a profile photo and header. You can also add a bio, and set your location. Make sure you check out your profile analytics to see how well your Twitter account is doing. This account will represent your brand so make sure the appearance is visually pleasing.
Before making your first tweet on Twitter, you want to consider some pre-planning stages:
Content – You want to decide if your Twitter account will be for personal reasons or more professional purposes, in which case you need to be considerate to the topics you tweet.
Tone – Determining your tone is extremely important on Twitter, as it will manifest your personality. Since Twitter is solely interactive-based (in contrast to sharing content on Instagram), you want to find a balance between being personable and respectful.
The final point is that keeping active is extremely important. You can demonstrate this by tweeting several times per day (ex. 3 tweets), replying to others tweets to remain engageful, retweeting others tweets and utilizing hashtags. The aforementioned tips will help you gain a larger reach by appearing in more people’s timelines, only if you are engaged. If you’re a sports enthusiast, the best time to be on Twitter is during or after a game. If you’re a gamer and are about to live stream, share it on Twitter. Twitter is the optimal app to broadcast your updates on other social medias, as it connects you to what is happening in the world.