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1. Name: Jim AL Sadik
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
Bangladesh Army University of
Engineering & Technology
Jim AL Sadik, Dept. of CSE, BAUET

2. Outlines
General Description
How to Start Twitter?
Sign in & Sign Up
Search People on Twitter
Follow People On Twitter
Tweet
Account Settings & Privacy
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3. General Descriptions
 What is twitter?
 Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its
users to send and read messages known as tweets.
 Founder of Twitter
 Twitter was Developed by Jack Dorsey on March 21st 2006
 What can we do?
 Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author's
profile page and delivered to the author's subscribers who are known as followers.
 Senders can restrict delivery to those people in their circle of friends or, by
default, allow open access. Users can send and receive tweets via the Twitter
website, Short Message Service (SMS) or external applications.
 Simple, quick and frequent (vs. blogs)
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4. General Descriptions
 Tweet
 Twitter posts or updates is known as a tweet. Some people refer to them as
“twits”, but the official term is “tweet.” Each tweet is not longer than 140
characters.
 Following
 While Facebook requires that all relationships be reciprocal, Twitter allows for
one-way relationships. If i find Twitter users who are interesting, i can "follow
them" to subscribe to their tweets. They do not necessarily have to follow me
back, though the more social users will want to follow me back
 Timeline
 The “timeline” page is the homepage which displays tweets from all the people I
am following.
 Direct Messages
 Links to my Inbox/Sent messages (140 characters or less) that are privately sent
to and from me.
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5. General Descriptions
 @replies
 Use an at sign (@) in front of a Twitter username to reply to someone, to refer
to them, or direct a new message to somebody.
 e.g., @jimalsadik
 Retweeting (RT)
 Retweeting is the act of sharing someone else’s tweet with my followers –
spreading the word wider. To identify a retweet, the Twitter convention is to
put RT at the start of the retweet and to include the Twitter username of the
person I am retweeting like attributing a quote.
 e.g., RT @khanshaheb It was awesome.
 Hashtags (#)
 Use the hash sign (#) as part of a “hashtag” to organize and categorize my
information.
 e.g., #FreeDrAaffiaSiddiqui
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6. How to Start Twitter?
1. Open any web browser
2. Click on the web address panel & Type
http://twitter.com/
3. Press or hit Enter
4. Twitter Home will appear in a few second
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7. Sign in & Sign Up
 In the home or
welcome page of
Twitter , there is two
option to go through
it ; Log in/Sign In &
Sign Up.
 For previously signed
user needs to log
in/sign in to go
through it. Other all
new users needs to
Sign Up to continue .
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8. Search People on Twitter
 We can search people on
Twitter by using Twitter’s
default search option .
 Top right corner, there is a
search box beside tweet &
settings button.
 From this search panel , we can
search for people we know or
want to find someone else.
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9. Follow People On Twitter
 We can Follow people on
Twitter to get their
updates and activity.
 We can follow anyone ,
not only our friends or
family.
 We can follow public
figures or celebrities to
stay connected with them.
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10. Tweet
 Twitter posts or updates is known as a tweet. Some people
refer to them as “twits”, but the official term is “tweet.”
Each tweet is not longer than 140 characters.
 Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters
displayed on the author's profile page and delivered to the
author's subscribers who are known as followers.
 After login to twitter , we can tweet anything not longer
than 140 characters by clicking on Tweet button or Tweet
logo on top both side of twitter timeline and also from
twitter profile .
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11. Account Settings & Privacy
 We can change our twitter profile
settings from profile & settings menu.
 We can change password, email address,
Mobile numbers, notification settings &
other all settings from here.
 We can change all types of privacy
settings ( tweet privacy, photo privacy,
sharing audience) from here.
 From account settings , we can easily
activate or deactivate our twitter profile
from anywhere , anytime.
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