To create an account
- Go to the Twitter homepage: http://twitter.com/signup
- Enter your full name, email address and a password that you will remember.
- Click Sign up for Twitter.
- On the next page you can select a username (this will be your Twitter name). Type your own or choose one that Twitter has automatically suggested.
- Check your name, email address, password and username.
- Click Sign up and then Twitter will guide you through some steps to help get you started.
- Don’t forget to follow @UsdawUnion to keep up to date with the latest news, events and workers’ rights.
Twitter Jargon Buster
The @ symbol is used to communicate with other Twitter users. For example, if you wanted to contact Usdaw or reply to one of Usdaw’s tweets you would have to include @UsdawUnion in your message. This way Usdaw will see your tweet.
Hashtags (#) are a huge part of Twitter. They help to organise tweets into categories. For example, if you type #Usdaw in the Twitter search bar you’ll be able to see all the tweets where #Usdaw has been mentioned.
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RT (or retweet) is the equivalent of forwarding an email or a text, if you like it, you might decide to share it with your followers.
For more information on using Twitter visit their help centre:
https://support.twitter.com/categories/281