Twitter Quickstart Guide for Yearbook

QUICK START GUIDE

Step One:

Create your Twitter account and start building your community It is important to note that Twitter is evolving, so these steps to create your account are just a basic overview intended to get you started.

Select a social media manager The same person who manages your Facebook page should also manage your Twitter account to ensure consistency across the two platforms.

Create a Twitter account.

Go to https://twitter.com to begin creating your account. If you do not already have a Twitter account you will be prompted to sign up for one before you can complete this step.

Enter the name of your school, e-mail address, password and username.

Follow other Twitter users.

Find other Twitter users to follow.

You can choose to follow students, teachers, organizations or even celebrities.

Build your timeline and promote your yearbook.

When you follow a Twitter user, their Tweets will automatically show up in your Timeline. Make sure you’re following the right users so that your time on Twitter helps to support the promotion of your yearbook.

Step TWO:

Step THREE:

You will start with a blank page, but don’t be overwhelmed.

You can transform it into a very respectable Twitter profile without too much effort.

Your Twitter community is your life line. The strength of your community determines overall what you will (or won’t) get out of the microblogging platform. What do you want to use Twitter for? Who do you need to connect with to realize to meet your goals/objective?

Start creating your Twitter profile!

Start building your community

Upload a Profile Picture for your Page.

Are your followers relevant to the success of your yearbook?

This is also the image that will be shown in a smaller scale next to all of your posts. Consider using the same photo used in your Facebook profile to provide consistency.

• Follow the students, faculty and community members you want interacting with you on facebook.

Here are few ideas for your profile picture: crazy staff photos, mascots, images that represent your yearbook theme, photo of a staff photographer with a camera lens pointed at you, or your yearbook cover design. Another fun idea is to use an image that shows only a portion of your yearbook cover design, then update the image periodically with a little more of the cover showing.

It is a Profile Image and a interest generator in one.

• You can also follow organizations (like Jostens) or celebrities that are relevant to the success of your yearbook.

• Following an individual is the Twitter equivalent to a “Friend Request” on Facebook.

Add information about your yearbook on the set-up screen.

Write a description about your yearbook program: Who you are, what you hope to accomplish with your account, and a quick note on how to order your yearbook. Consider keeping your description similar to your

• Once you’ve followed a Twitter user, their Tweets will automatically be updated onto your Timeline.

Facebook page.

Upload a cover photo to Twitter.

This photo is similar in size to Facebook’s cover photo. This is another opportunity to provide consistency with the visuals on your Facebook page.

Does your School or Yearbook have a website?

Include the URL here so your Twitter followers can find more information about you and your yearbook.

Sync Twitter with Facebook Are you worried about having time to manage two social media platforms?

By syncing your Tweets with your Facebook page, you can send information about your yearbook to both your Twitter community and your Facebook community with one click of the mouse.

Step FOUR:

How to post a Tweet via the web: A Tweet is a 140-character message posted via Twitter.

1. Sign in to your Twitter account.

2. Type your Tweet into the box on the left side of your

screen, or click the blue compose new Tweet button in the top navigation bar. It looks like the example below.

3. Make sure your update is fewer than 140 characters.

We’ll count the characters for you! Remaining characters show up as a number below the box.

Q: What is a Retweet (RT)?

4. Click the Tweet button to post the Tweet to your profile.

Q: How do I find people to follow?

5. You will immediately see your Tweet in the timeline on your homepage.

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A: When you create an account, you can search for people by name or user name, import friends from other networks, or invite friends via email. You can also follow some of the people we’ve suggested.

Q: How do I know who I’m following?

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A: After you click the ‘Follow’ button on someone’s profile, you’re following them. See a list of people you’re following by clicking on the following link on your profile page or on your home page’s sidebar.

Q: How do I know who is following me?

A: Abbreviated as RT, Retweet is used on Twitter to show you are tweeting content that has been posted by another user. The format is RT @username where username is the twitter name of the person you are retweeting.

Q: What is a Timeline?

A: Your home timeline is a long stream showing all Tweets from those you have chosen to follow on Twitter. The newest updates are at the top. You can interact with Tweets from within the timeline by hovering your mouse over a Tweet to reply, retweet, or favorite. Clicking anywhere on a Tweet in your timeline expands the Tweet, so you can see photos, videos, and other information related to that Tweet.

Q: What are @replies?

A: Twitter sends you an email when someone new follows you. Set up your email preferences to notify you when you have a new follower. The ‘Followers’ link on your profile page or home page’s sidebar will also tell you who is following you.

A: If a message begins with @username, meaning it was directed to another user, it is an @reply. Click the Reply button on another person’s Tweet to reply to it.

Please note that if your Tweets are protected, users who are not following you will not see your @replies or mentions. Read more here.

Q: Monitor your mentions.

Q: What are direct messages?

A: When another user includes your username preceded by the @ symbol in a Tweet, we call it a “mention.” Your Mentions tab collects Tweets that mention you by your username so you can keep track of conversations others are having with you. Click a Tweet to see the conversation.

A: Direct messages are personal messages sent from one Twitter account to another; they do not appear in public for anyone else to read. You can only send a direct message to a person who follows you.

Read more here.