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Contents
Part 1 – Setting up ................................................................................. 1
Step 1: Read the Guidelines ........................................................................ 1 Step 2: Register on Twitter.com .................................................................. 1
Step 3: Account Details .............................................................................. 2 Step 4: Confirmation of details .................................................................... 2 Step 5: Setting up...................................................................................... 3
Step 6: Confirm email ................................................................................ 4 Step 7: Begin using your account ................................................................. 4
Part 2 – The Twitter Interface – An Overview ........................................ 4 Home Page vs. Profile Page ......................................................................... 4
What do you see? ...................................................................................... 5
Part 3: Settings - Updating Your Profile ................................................. 6 Profile Information ..................................................................................... 7
Design ................................................................................................... 7
Part 4: #Discover – Finding People to Follow ......................................... 8
What are people saying on Twitter? .............................................................. 8 Finding Accounts to Follow .......................................................................... 8
What Am I Seeing? - Example of an account summary: ............................... 8
How To Follow (Or Unfollow!) An Account ...................................................... 9 Hashtags ................................................................................................ 10
Part 5: Home and Tweeting ...................................................................11 Composing a Tweet ............................................................................... 12 Replying to a Tweet ............................................................................... 13
Retweeting .............................................................................................. 15 Turning Off Retweets on Other Accounts .................................................. 15
Blocking Accounts or Reporting Spam ...................................................... 15
Part 6: Me – The Profile Page ................................................................16
Part 7: @Connect – Seeing your Interactions ........................................17
Direct messages (DM) .............................................................................. 18
Part 8 – Lists .........................................................................................19
What are Lists? ........................................................................................ 19 Create a List ............................................................................................ 19 Viewing/Managing a List ........................................................................... 20
Notes ....................................................................................................22
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Part 1 – Setting up
Step 1: Read the Guidelines Make sure you read the Social Media Guidelines which can be found at:
http://trans.ucc.ie/en/webprotocols/ These protocols also include a section on planning your social media site.
In addition, we recommend you have a look at the information and links
contained in the Social Media section of the Training Centre website. These can be found at: http://www.ucc.ie/en/tcentre/socialmedia/
Step 2: Register on Twitter.com Go to http://twitter.com
The screen will display two options – login with a username and password, or if you’re ‘New to Twitter’, allow you to sign up.
Please note that when you return to Twitter in future, you will use the top section to log in to your account with the details we are about to set up.
Login
Form
Sign-Up
Form
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Step 3: Account Details
1. Choose an appropriate username. This username will become your
‘handle’, the name others can use to ‘mention’ you in tweets.
Your username should only contain letters, and if necessary, numbers. Spaces are not allowed.
Tip: Symbols and special characters are difficult to type on mobile devices, so it
is highly recommended that you do not use them in your username. 2. Enter an email address and password.
You should use a departmental email address (not a personal one) as more than one person should be regulating this account.
This email address is also the address to which any email notifications from Twitter will go.
3. Click ‘Sign up for Twitter’ to continue to the next step.
Step 4: Confirmation of details
Fill in the remaining details, including your ‘Full Name’, which is the name of the department you are creating the Twitter account for. It can contain spaces,
and be up to 20 characters long.
NB: Your ‘Full Name’ will be displayed on your Twitter profile, alongside your ‘handle’. It is for display purposes only.
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Click ‘Create my account’ to continue.
Step 5: Setting up You will be guided through a series of steps including following suggested
people, finding contacts already on Twitter from your address books, and updating your profile. The first few steps (following people) are ‘mandatory’,
while later steps have an option to ‘skip this step.’
Tip: If you would prefer to avoid following random accounts/searching for
contacts right away, you can use the address bar to skip the ‘mandatory’ steps – just type www.twitter.com and you will be taken to
your new homepage. Please note that this will also skip the step below for adding an image and
bio to your profile, but all of these steps can be accessed at a later stage via your settings control panel, and will be revisited later in the
course.
Search for people
by name
Search other contacts
Search by generic
term
Choose to
follow a suggested
account
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Step 6: Confirm email Once you have completed the above steps, you will be asked to confirm your email. Go to Outlook and click on the link in the confirmation email. Your
account will now be active.
Note: If you cannot find the email in your inbox, check your spam folder. If all else fails, you can click ‘resend confirmation’ in the confirmation notice at the top of your Twitter page.
Step 7: Begin using your account You are now ready to start sending tweets, updating your information and
interacting with people.
Part 2 – The Twitter Interface – An Overview This section will briefly introduce you to the Twitter interface and things we will
be looking at in greater detail later.
Home Page vs. Profile Page Before looking at the interface in detail, it is important to know the difference
between your Home page and your Profile page.
Upload an ‘avatar’ image
to display on your profile
Insert a short, 160 character bio
describing who
you are
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Your Home Page is your personal access point, a ‘behind the scenes’
area where you receive information such as tweets, who is following you, where you compose your tweets, manage your settings, and where you
will, in general, spend most of your time. Nobody sees your Home Page but you.
Your Profile Page is the public face of your Twitter account, displaying your tweets and information. It is exactly what other Twitter users will see
when they look at your account. We will look at each of these pages in detail later, so for now just bear in mind
what the difference between the two is.
What do you see?
Across the top of the page you will see a selection of pages, each of which will be explored in more detail throughout the course.
Home: Your home page is where you see tweets sent by the
accounts your follow. You can also send tweets from here.
@Connect: This is where you can see tweets sent to you, and where you can see how people
are interacting with your tweets. #Discover: Here you can get a
much broader view of popular activity (what’s ‘trending’) on Twitter. In addition, this is where
to go to find new accounts to follow.
Me: This takes you to your profile page, which is the public face of your Twitter account, and
what people see when they search for you on Twitter.
Search Bar: An easy-access way
to search for tweets, people or
anything else. It will take you to a search results page featuring
accounts, photos, tweets etc.
Direct Message: Private one to one messages can be created here. You can only DM mutual
follows. Settings: Your first port of call
on a new Twitter account, and where you go to fill out your public profile or change your
account settings. Compose New Tweet: Not a
page – rather, a button which pops out a window allowing you to compose and post a new
tweet.
In the following sections, we will go through each tab in the order best suited to setting up a new Twitter account properly.
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Part 3: Settings - Updating Your Profile
The Settings page of your Twitter account is where you can
update the information on your public profile (the page seen by other Twitter users), change the design and background
image of your profile, and also adjust your account settings, email notifications etc.
Your settings can be accessed by clicking on the gear icon, and then choosing ‘Settings’ from the drop-down menu.
There are a variety of options in the settings menu which you can edit, including the password for your account or setting up Twitter for your mobile.
Tip: The “Account” tab allows you to
change the username (or “handle”) of your account and the email address used
to sign in/receive notifications. These will rarely, if ever, be changed after their
initial setup, but it is worth remembering where they are.
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Profile Information To edit the content of your Twitter profile, click ‘Profile.’
NB: It is important to fill out your
profile as this information will be displayed in any search results, and is also the first thing users see when
they view your Twitter account.
Photo: Choose a small photo to upload as an avatar. It is a good idea to include
a photo, as profiles without photos are usually a good indication of spam accounts.
Header: This is the background image
for the profile box displayed on your Twitter profile page.
Name: This is the name (first and last name) you chose when setting up the
account. It can be changed at any time. Location: It is recommended that you state the location of your department or
offices.
Website: Insert a link to your departmental website here (remember to include http://)
Bio: Insert a short description of your department, what it does, and/or the purpose of your departmental Twitter account.
NB: You can see your profile page by clicking on the ‘Me’ page. This page will be covered in more detail later in the course.
Design
The design tab allows you to change the background of your
Twitter profile (which is set by default to a blue-sky theme with clouds). You can choose one of
the pre-set backgrounds, choose a solid colour, or upload one of
your own pictures instead.
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Part 4: #Discover – Finding People to Follow
This section deals with the #Discover page of your Twitter account, where you can do a variety of things, including finding new accounts to follow, see the activity of accounts you follow, and see what people around the world are
tweeting about with trending topics.
Click into the #Discover tab.
What are people saying on Twitter? On the left is a menu of options. By default,
this is set to Tweets, and on the right you see a constantly-updating feed of tweets (often news items and photographs) which is
tailored for you. Twitter automatically tailors this feed based on what accounts you follow,
and what accounts those accounts follow. By clicking Activity, the feed will change to
reflect all activity of the accounts you follow, including new accounts they follow, their retweets, their favourites etc.
Finding Accounts to Follow The last three tabs are related to finding accounts to follow.
Who to Follow: The Who to follow tab is
the most useful tool for a new Twitter user trying to find new accounts to follow. By typing in a name or phrase (for example
“University College Cork”, or “medicine”, Twitter will provide you with a long list of
accounts associated with those terms. These accounts may be department
accounts, business accounts, personal accounts, etc.
Tip: Searching “University College Cork”
is a great way to start finding other UCC
Twitter accounts to connect
with.
What Am I Seeing? - Example of an account summary: This is the kind of ‘summary’ of an account you will see listed in “Who to Follow” search results. This is how your profile information will appear when your Twitter
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account is returned in other users’ search results.
How To Follow (Or Unfollow!) An Account
In order to follow an account, you just need to click the grey
“Follow” button to the right of the account summary. Once you click it, it will become blue and say ‘Following’. You will now receive updates in your Twitter feed from this account.
If you decide to unfollow an account, simply hover your mouse
over the blue ‘following’ button, and it will change to a red ‘Unfollow’ button. Click it to confirm your decision.
NB: Accounts may be notified by email that you have begun following them, if they have chosen to receive such notifications in their Account Settings.
However, no account will ever be notified if you unfollow them.
If you look to the left, below the #Discover menu, you will see there are two more boxes below it. The first of these is named “Who
to Follow”.
This box is actually a smaller version of the “Who To Follow” tab (press “View All” to go to this tab), and it will generate account
suggestions based on who you follow and what information you provide (e.g. stating
your location as Cork may prompt Twitter to suggest other Cork-based accounts.)
This box, and the one below it, are present on every page (Home, @Connect. #Discover, etc.)
From this box you can also directly access the remaining tabs, Top Accounts and Find Friends.
Handle Interact (tweet, block, etc.)
Profile photo or “avatar”
Profile Bio
Username
Follow or Unfollow
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Find Friends: This is used for searching your address books in other accounts (for example, your Gmail address book) and finding out if any of those contacts
are on Twitter.
By choosing the account you wish to search, Twitter will automatically search for your contacts’ email addresses, and show you any Twitter accounts linked to those addresses. You may be required to log into the other account, and ‘grant
access to Twitter to allow it search your contacts.
You can also invite friends via email to join Twitter in this tab. Top Accounts: Here Twitter will suggest a list of popular accounts falling into a
range of categories, such as comedy, fashion, sports, news etc.
Trends The second box on the bottom left of the screen, present (like Who to Follow) on every page, is the Trends box.
What is a Trend? Twitter Trends, or Trending Topics, are the topics being most talked about at
any given time.
How Does Twitter Determine What’s Trending? Recurring words or phrases are detected by Twitter, and if those words or
phrases are repeatedly frequently and quickly enough, the ‘topic’ (that word or phrase) will ‘trend’. This means the word or phrase will appear in a list of Trends in this Trend Box.
Trends update in real time, so as soon as another word or phrase becomes more
rapidly talked about it will replace previously trending words or phrases.
Trends by Location
The trends that display in the Trend box can be regional or global, depending on your
choice. For example, you can choose to see what’s trending in Cork, or Ireland, and you will get a list of the topics being tweeted about
most frequently by Twitter users based in Cork, or Ireland. You can choose different
countries, and you can also set it to ‘Worldwide’ to see what is being most talked
about on a global scale.
Hashtags You may have noticed by now that the #Discover tab has a hash symbol associated with it. Furthermore, looking at trends, and even some tweets, you
Change to see trends from
another region
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may have noticed that some words and phrases have this symbol associated with them. A word or phrase prefaced by a hash symbol is known as a hashtag.
What Do Hashtags Do? Hashtags essentially categorize
tweets and make them easy to find by associating a specific,
searchable word or phrase with those tweets. When that hashtag is searched, Twitter provides a real-
time list of all tweets featuring that hashtag, whether or not you are following the accounts that tweeted them. For
example, if you are tweeting about something related to UCC, or Medicine, you might include #UCC or #Medicine in your tweet.
This is particularly useful for conferences or events. A designated hashtag, denoting a
particular event, can be used in all tweets relating to that event, providing a reference point for anyone who wants to keep up to date
with the event.
When a hashtag is searched, simply by clicking on the red hashtag, a results page displays. You can then scroll through all the previous
tweets and interact with them if you wish.
One use of this is, for example, in a large conference setting, the use of the hashtag to ask and answer questions. For example, a
conference may have the hashtag #Conf13 associated with it - participants in the audience can then tweet questions, ‘tag’
them #Conf13, and the conference host may have a screen set up displaying the search results of the hashtag. They can then read out questions or comments to the audience, and respond to them.
Unique to Twitter, this functionality provides the capacity for greater interactivity
in a large-scale setting. Tip: Make hashtags identifiable and as unique as possible. This minimizes the
likelihood of the same hashtag being used for other purposes, and tweets relating to different things appearing in the results.
Filtering the results You can filter the results to show top tweets, all tweets, or tweets from people you follow. Filtering by ‘Top’ tweets will show you a list
of the tweets which have been marked as favourite or retweeted the most.
Hashtag used in a tweet
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Part 5: Home and Tweeting Now that you have your profile set up and know how to find people to follow, it’s
time to look at your Home page and learn how to start tweeting.
This is your homepage, and the page you see by default when you log into your Twitter account. It is where you can see tweets sent from accounts you follow, and where you can compose your own tweets. To the bottom left, you can see
the Who To Follow and Trends boxes we already looked at.
Profile Summary: This is a synopsis of the
summary which other Twitter users will see on your Profile Page (the Me page). It is a useful reference point for the number of accounts you
are following (accounts whose tweets will appear in your Twitter feed) and how many
followers your account has (people who will see tweets sent from your account.)
Twitter Feed: Tweets from accounts you follow will be displayed in a constantly-
updating, real-time ‘feed’ on the right hand side of the screen. This is known as your Twitter Feed or News Feed (you may also hear it referred to as a Twitter timeline.)
Your Twitter feed will display tweets from
other accounts, retweets, and your own tweets.
As new tweets arrive, Twitter will alert you
with the following display. Click on the alert to display the new tweets.
Compose new
Tweet
Profile
Summary Twitter Feed
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Composing a Tweet You can begin composing a tweet by clicking into the relevant box and
starting to type. The window will expand to reveal some extra options (see next page). Alternatively, you can also use the blue button on the top right of your screen, which will pop out a ‘Compose Tweet’ window.
A tweet can be comprised of up to 140 characters. This 140 characters can contain text,
links to webpages, or links to media such as video or photos.
It can also be directed to
a particular account by including their handle and an @ symbol: E.g.
In order to send a tweet to the Training Centre
twitter account, you would type @ucctcentre. We will look at this in more detail shortly.
Links and Media In order to include a photo in your
tweet, use the camera button below the text box. This will allow you to upload an image file from
your computer. The image will be contained as a link in the final
tweet, with the option to ‘view media’, which will pop out and display the image underneath the
tweet.
The same applies to videos – but videos must be manually inserted as links by coping and pasting their URLs from the address bar. They will, however, pop up
underneath your tweet in the same way as a photo. Links to webpages or articles will usually take the user directly to those webpages once they click on the link.
Display Name Handle
Avatar Interaction Options
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Tip: Even if your link is longer than 23 characters, it will not use more than 23
characters out of your 140 character limit.
When your tweet is ready, just press the ‘tweet’ button. It will then appear in your own feed and in the feeds of anyone who follows your account.
Close Open Tweets: When scrolling through your feed, you may expand tweets, or view their media, without remember to collapse/hide
them afterwards, and you may end up with a lot of ‘open’ tweets. You can ‘close’ all these tweets in one go with this button, which will appear on the
top right of the menu bar.
Features of a Tweet
The layout of a tweet is similar to the layout of the profile summaries we’ve already seen – an avatar, the username and the handle of the account. They also include a time or date stamp on the top right.
Expand: Clicking a tweet will open out details about that tweet. These details include the specific date and time it was posted, how many
retweets or favourites it has, and also any replies that have been made to the tweet.
Reply: This will open out a reply box already containing the account’s
handle in preparation for sending them a reply. Delete: This option will only be available on tweets you yourself have
tweeted. On all other tweets, it will have a ‘Retweet’ feature. We will look at this shortly.
Favourite: Stores the tweet for later reference in a list of favourites,
accessible from your Me profile page. These favourites will be publically viewable by any Twitter user.
Replying to a Tweet If there is a tweet you would like to reply to, mouse over the tweet to display
interaction options, click Reply and a reply area will open out, identical to the composition box we already looked at. It will also already containing the handle (username) of the account you are replying to and any other accounts
mentioned in that tweet – these handle can be clicked to access the profiles of those account. You may see a ‘view conversation’ option – this will show you a
thread of previous replies in the conversation.
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If you wish to direct the tweet to more than one account, you can include more
than one handle, by simply typing them in. Just bear in mind that handles do count towards your 140 character count, so the more accounts you include, the
less room you have to type a tweet. You can also choose to remove handles from tweets by just selecting and deleting them. Click on “tweet” to send the reply.
Viewing Replies Using a handle in a tweet to direct that tweet to a specific account is called
‘mentioning’ that account – but who else can see tweets which mention accounts?
Tweet Layout: How you lay your tweet out will determine who exactly sees the reply. There are two ways to lay out handles in a tweet – preceding the tweet
content with the handle, or adding the handle in the middle or at the end of the tweet.
Beginning: If you include a handle at the beginning of a tweet, three parties will see it in their timeline:
o You, as you sent the tweet
o The Recipient: if they are following you. If they are not following you, they will be able to see the mention in their @connect tab, but
it will not appear in their timeline. o Mutual Followers: Anybody who is following both you and the
recipient account, will see the tweet in their timeline, even if
neither you nor the recipient are following them. Example: For instance, say you are following both Stephen
Fry and Dara O’Briain on Twitter. Stephen Fry and Dara O’Briain, are (presumably) not following you. However, if Stephen mentions Dara in a tweet, you will see that tweet in
your timeline, because you are following both accounts. Middle or End: If you place any characters before the handle, no matter
what characters they are, the tweet will appear in the timeline of all of your followers. It will also appear in the @connect tab of the recipient, but it will otherwise act as a standard tweet. You may wish to use this
feature if you want to address the content of your
tweet to all your followers in general, but also to one or two accounts in particular. It may also be useful for directing your
followers to check out an account.
Important: Please remember that no matter how you format your tweets, all
tweets are publically visible your Me profile page. As such, all tweets should be appropriate for public viewing.
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Retweeting The Retweet button appears in place of the Delete button on tweets which are not yours.
Retweeting allows you to send a tweet from another account on to all your followers, much
like forwarding an email. The tweet will appear in its original form in your followers’ timelines, but underneath it will say
‘retweeted by ____’ and include your account name. This is useful to remember in case you
see tweets appearing in your timeline from unfamiliar accounts – they may have been
retweeted by somebody you do follow.
Tip: Retweeting can be
a useful way of keeping your Twitter account
active and relevant when you do not have any new content to
post from your department.
The below image shows a tweet sent by UCC, and retweeted by the Computer
Training Centre. All retweets have a green triangle/arrow in the top right hand corner to indicate that they are retweets.
Retweet Indicator
Link to a webpage
Who retweeted it
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Turning Off Retweets on Other Accounts In some instances, accounts will retweet
many tweets and these may be either irrelevant to you, or simply appearing too often. If you wish, you can turn off
retweets for that account – which means that when that account retweets
something, it won’t appear in your timeline.
To turn off retweets, click the account’s username to bring up a profile summary.
Then, click the gear icon button to bring up a list of interaction options. Click “turn off retweets”. This can be reversed at any
time by clicking it again.
It is useful to note at this point that this menu also contains the options of sending a direct message or adding or removing
from lists. We will be looking at both of these things later.
Blocking Accounts or Reporting
Spam Blocking an Account: Blocking an account on Twitter will stop tweets from that
account appearing in your timeline or your @connect tab. This includes tweets which mention you. However, it does not stop that account from seeing your profile and tweets.
Report for Spam: Spam accounts are accounts generated by entities known as ‘bots’, which may on occasion mention you in garbled tweets containing links. As these links may contain viruses or other malicious content, it is important to be
able to identify spam accounts so you don’t click these links. Oftentimes, a spam account will have few or no followers, no avatar, and their
tweets (if you look at their profile, which is safe to do) will make little or no sense. If you come across an account like this, you can report them for spam and block them.
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Part 6: Me – The Profile Page
Now that your account has been set up, your profile customized, accounts followed and you have an understanding of how to tweet – let’s look at the
profile page that all of these things combine to create. This page is what other Twitter users will see when they visit your page. You’ll notice that the “Who to Follow” and “Trends” boxes also appear on this page.
Remember, all of the information on your profile page is public.
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Profile Box: This box contains all the information you included when you
filled out your profile – name, bio, location, and website. It also shows an
account summary – number of tweets, followers, and how many accounts you are following.
When you view the profile page of
your own account, this also includes an Edit Profile button. This button is replaced by the Follow/Unfollow button on other accounts.
You’ll also notice, on other accounts, a grey bar as displayed above listing a
number of followers. In the example above, it says the official UCC account is followed by some names, and 67 others. Clicking the ’67 others’ will bring up a full list. This list is people you are already following – essentially it is
Twitter suggesting this account may be relevant to your interests as so many other accounts you follow are already following it.
Twitter Feed: The Twitter Feed on your Profile page is a feed of all the
tweets you have posted or retweeted. Remember, if you reply to someone using their handle, it will not appear on your followers Home Pages, but it is still publically visible on your profile (see example screen capture above).
View Options: This menu allows Twitter users to browse the list of accounts
you are following and being followed by, as well as view your favourite tweets and any lists you have created (see Part 8).
Media: The media section is a quick-access point for users to see the videos and photos you have tweeted. When a user clicks an image or photo, it opens
out in a new window, and displays the tweet it was posted with.
Part 7: @Connect – Seeing your Interactions This is where you will see any interactions between you and another twitter user.
This could involve: someone you know replying to or retweeting one of your tweets
a stranger registering interest in your services/events someone inviting you to look at their account notification of when you have gained new followers.
The use of the @ symbol in the tab name, “@Connect”, is derived from the way
in which users address tweets to each other – it indicates a “handle” (the username we mentioned earlier).
E.g. In order to send a tweet to the Training Centre twitter account, you would type @ucctcentre – denoting that it is addressed to an account
with the handle “ucctcentre”.
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There are two tabs on the left hand side, the Interactions tab and the Mentions tab.
Interactions will show you any form of interaction made with your account,
including new followers or retweets. Mentions will contain a list of tweets
featuring your account’s handle in them.
Direct messages (DM)
Direct Messages are the only form of totally private communication on Twitter,
and are only ever seen by the sender and recipient. They have a character limit similar to tweets. To access Direct Messages, click on the envelope icon on the
top bar.
The DM window will pop out in the middle of your screen, showing you a list of
conversation threads. Click on one to open that thread, and view the conversation between your account and the recipient account.
Tip: You can only send direct
messages to accounts which are following you.
In order to compose a new message,
click the New Message button, and type in the handle of the account you
wish to send the message to. Compose your message, and click
send.
When you click on a user’s profile there is also a button in there which allows you to publicly reply, send a direct message, add/remove to/from lists, Block,
Report and a few other options.
Mark all as
read
Compose New
Message
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Part 8 – Lists
What are Lists? Lists allow you to sort users into categories. For
example, within UCC you could have lists for Academic accounts, School accounts, College accounts, Student Club accounts, Student Society accounts etc. Viewing a
list shows you a timeline of tweets, containing only tweets from the users on that list.
Lists can be accessed from the Settings menu – you have the option of viewing lists you are subscribed to or
are a member of.
List Subscription: You can subscribe to another user’s list without being
a member of it. You can only subscribe to public lists – when creating lists users can choose to make them private and not publically visible. You are automatically subscribed to any lists you create.
List Member: If a user adds to you a list they have created, your tweets will be viewable in that list by anyone subscribed to that list. You will not
see tweets from other members of the list, unless you subscribe to it.
Create a List In order to create a new list, click the
Create List button. The below form will display. Note that the List Name has a limit of 25 characters.
Once you have filled out the form and
saved it, the empty list will be created. You then need to populate the list with people by adding them individually.
To add a user to a list, go to the Gear icon on their profile, and select Add or remove
from lists.
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The following screen will display, allowing you either add the user to one of your existing
groups by checking the relevant check box, or by clicking Create a List, which will take you
to the page we just looked at.
Viewing/Managing a List To view a list, simply click on the name of the list on your lists page. Click Me -> then Lists from the menu on the left. Select the list you want to view. A page
laid out similarly to the below will display.
Information Panel: The panel on the top left contains the List name and
description, the number of members and subscribers, and also houses the
Info Panel
Twitter Feed
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Edit and Delete buttons. Use the Edit button to change the List name, description, privacy settings, and members.
Tweet Feed: By default this area shows tweets posted by members of the list, but it displays whatever is selected in the View Menu.
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Notes