Third part of a five part series of presentations introducing businesses, in particular entrpreneurs and owner managers, to networking online using Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.

1. Social Media in BusinessGetting Started on Twitter

2. TWITTER

3. www.twitter.com

4. Registering your Account

5. Choosing your Name

6. Security!

7. Follow Someone

8. Find Friends

9. Search for People/Businesses

10. Your (Basic) Home Page

11. Confirming your Account

12. Completing your Biography

13. Security Again

14. Branding on Twitter

15. Profile Picture

16. New & Improved Homepage

17. Even More Branding

18. Cool Backgrounds

19. Selecting Background Image

20. Oops.... Broke it!!

21. There we are! Much Better.

22. Let’s Start Following

23. Click to Follow

24. Homepage with Followers

25. Follower’s Feeds

26. How does it work? Twitter lets you write and read messages of up to 140 characters, or the very length of this sentence, including all punctuation and spaces. The messages (also known as tweets) are public, and you decide which accounts you want to receive messages from Twitter works equally well from your desktop or mobile phone

27. Key terms… To follow somebody is to subscribe to their messages A tweet is an individual message A DM or direct message is a private message on Twitter RT or retweet is to repost a valuable message from somebody else on Twitter and give them credit Trending topics are the most-discussed terms on Twitter at any given moment

28. …and some special lingo @username is a public message to or about an individual on Twitter A hashtag—the # symbol followed by a term and included in tweets—is a way of categorizing all the posts on a topic Shortened URLs. To fit links into the short messages, Twitter shrinks some URLs down automatically

30. If you’ve launched a product, new store or new campaign, search Twitter for comments

31. Respond to customer service issues quickly