Twitter Tips--Finding someone on another network

Finding someone on another network Searching for the members of your posse individually using the Find on Twitter feature is an easy way to get going, but it can be time-consuming and frustrating if you keep coming up empty. An often better way to go is to get Twitter to do some of the legwork for...
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Twitter Tips--Finding people with Twitter accounts

Finding people with Twitter accounts The best way to get started is to use the Find on Twitter feature, which enables you to scour the database of tweeters for someone you know. You can search by first name, last name, or even the person’s Twitter username.  Here’s how it works:  1.  Sign...
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Twitter Tips--Getting an e-mail receive a direct message in Twitter

Getting an e-mail receive a direct message in Twitter-If someone you’re following replies to one of your updates, then you see that reply in your friend timeline, but for all other replies you must open the @Replies section of your home page. However, direct messages never appear in your time lines,...
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Twitter Tips--Making private updates in twitter

Making private updates in twitter. A default Twitter account is pretty much an open book: A--Anyone (even people without a Twitter account) can access your home page and view your tweets.  B--Each time you post a tweet it appears briefly on Twitter’s public timeline for all the world to see. C--Anyone...
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Twitter Tips--Working with Updates Deleting,Adding

Once you’ve begun posting updates in earnest, you may find that you need to perform a little maintenance work from time to time. Twitter does not offer many options in this department, but there are three things you can do: delete an update, mark an update as a favorite, and make your updates private....
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Twitter tips--Typing non-standard characters in Twitter

Typing non-standard characters in Twitter Besides the keys that you can eyeball on your keyboard, you can also include in your tweets a few non-standard characters, such as and ™.  Twitter supports a character set called UTF-8,which is a list of 400 symbols, from the...
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Twitter Tips- for managing the 140-character limit

Twitter Tips for managing the 140-character limit If there’s one thing that even many non-tweeters know about Twitter it’s that its messages can be no more than 140 characters long. Why 140 and not, say, 200, or 500, or no limit at all? Twitter was designed originally to use the...
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Twitter tips--Sending an Update in twitter

Sending an Update in twitter There are a few folks with Twitter accounts who are “read-only” users: they follow others, but they don’t post any updates themselves. That’s fine, I guess, if you’ve simply got nothing to say, but few of us are that tongue-tied. I assume you signed up with Twitter...
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Twitter tips--Stopping Twitter from Sending New Follower Messages

Stopping Twitter from Sending New Follower Messages With all these great renovations you’ve been doing, it won’t be long before people start beating a path to your Twitter door. You’ll know right away if your custom design is a hit because Twitter sends you an e-mail message every...
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Twitter tips--Selecting a custom background image in Twitter

Twitter tips--Selecting a custom background image in Twitter If you want to ramp up the “wow” factor, if you want to use your Twitter profile as part of a personal or business branding strategy, or if you just want a Twitter home that truly reflects your style and personality,...
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Twitter tips--Using a solid color background in Twitter

Twitter tips--Using a solid color background in Twitter  The simplest customization you can make to your design is to switch to a solid color background.Swirling patterns and striking photos have their place in the world of Twitter backgrounds, but some people find them distracting....
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Twitter tips--Applying Theme Twitter Profile

Applying a Theme to Twitter Profile Your fresh-out-of-the-box Twitter account sets up your pages to use a collection of colors and images that are the same for all new accounts:   The page background is light blue.   The page background shows faint cloud-like images.   The...
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Twitter tips--Setting Twitter account Picture

Setting Twitter account Picture If the eyes are the windows of the soul, your Twitter picture is the window of your account. Sort of. To see what I mean, check out the list of Twitterers.See the picture in the lower right corner? That’s the generic image that Twitter displays when...
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Twitter tips--Filling In Twitter account Profile Details

When you created your Twitter account, you only had to specify three things about yourself: your name, the Twitter username you preferred, and a password for your account. That made the signup procedure blessedly quick, but it doesn’t give folks much to chew on when they access...
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