Signing up takes just a few minutes at (http://twitter.com) and click the Get Started button.
The first screen you see looks like the one here. The key pieceshere are the name boxes. In the Full Name box, type your actual name (or your company name,if this is a corporate account).
The Username box is where you add your account name—the one everybody on Twitter will know you by (like The_Real_Shaq or Pistachio or timoreilly). For the username, try to find one with the fewest number of characters possible; that becomes important as soon as people want to refer to you or repost your comments and find that your username is taking up several of their 140 characters.
After you fill out the rest and click “Create my account,” Twitter walks you through another few steps to find your friends on the service and suggest peopleyou might want to follow. Following is described later in this chapter. Turn the page for quick tips on fleshing out your account so that other people find it appealing.
The first screen you see looks like the one here. The key pieceshere are the name boxes. In the Full Name box, type your actual name (or your company name,if this is a corporate account).
The Username box is where you add your account name—the one everybody on Twitter will know you by (like The_Real_Shaq or Pistachio or timoreilly). For the username, try to find one with the fewest number of characters possible; that becomes important as soon as people want to refer to you or repost your comments and find that your username is taking up several of their 140 characters.
After you fill out the rest and click “Create my account,” Twitter walks you through another few steps to find your friends on the service and suggest peopleyou might want to follow. Following is described later in this chapter. Turn the page for quick tips on fleshing out your account so that other people find it appealing.
