Lynda – Twitter Essential Training (2015)-0daytown

Learn how to use Twitter to find and engage with everyone from friends and business associates to celebrities and others. Author Jess Stratton explains the conventions and lingo of the microblogging platform, including tweets, retweets (RTs), Direct Messages (DMs), follows, mentions, hashtags, and more. She shows how to create an account, find people you know or who have shared interests, and write and read tweets, including tweets containing hashtags, images, links, and video. Plus, learn how to create lists of favorite tweets and use Twitter on the go on a mobile phone or tablet.

Topics include:

* Using Twitter terminology
* Following people
* Creating tweets
* Adding links and photos
* Retweets and favorites
* Replying to tweets
* Unfollowing, blocking, and muting users
* Adjusting account, security, and privacy settings
* Understanding Twitter trends
* Using the Twitter mobile app