It's time to pick up some momentum and dive into the Twitter experience. If you have used online tools in the past to extend your brand (a website or Yahoo! Store, perhaps), alternate channels to help sell your products, or social network sites to help spread the term, you'll be happy to know that setup at Twitter is remarkably easy and quick.
Open your favorite Web browser application and navigate to http:// twitter.com. When you arrive, you'll be greeted by the friendly and simple webpage. As simplicity is the theme at Twitter, it is not difficult for newcomers to find the "Sign up now" button in the right side of the home page screen. As an enticement as well as convenience, you'll also see active links towards the "popular topics by the minute, day, and week."
Thankfully, the website is free from cluttering banners, ads, and other such mess that convolutes the message of simplicity; hopefully Twitter can remain this way. With nothing much more to see on Twitter's home page, feel free to click the Register Now button.
Upon clicking the Register Now button in the Twitter home page, you'll navigate to one of the simplest sign-up screens in Internet history. Whatever you need to provide is the following:
1. Your name. No mystery here, it's just your name. Twitter will provide immediate feedback if your name is already in use in an existing active account (if that's the case, it recognizes you've already created an account under your name, or - gulp - someone else has).
2. Your desired user name. Here's where you create the user name that people within the Twitterverse will come to know you by. Twitter will check its database to find out if the user name you've specified can be obtained or not. Oh, be advised that the website does not allow the use of "twitter" or "twttr" within user names.
3. Your password. To create a very strong password, ensure it's more than six characters long and features a combination of letters, numbers, special characters, and capital and lowercase letters. Whether it's so cryptic that you earn the "very strong" indicator (when i have), write it down somewhere until you're certain you've committed it to memory.
4. Your e-mail address. A valid e-mail address is all you need. Twitter will check to see if an account already exists using the e-mail address you specify, though.
Upon entering that information, you'll need to type in the stylized characters the thing is in the "captcha" security string; this prevents automated software applications from being able to create multiple makes up about spam or other illicit purposes. And before you click the Create My Account button, you can elect to review the terms of service details (these are the regulations you'll be agreeing to when you use Twitter) by clicking the active text link. So, click the button and make your account.
If you do, you can click the appropriate icons to access those services and see if any of your friends curently have their own Twitter accounts. If you wish, you can click the Skip This Step text link at the bottom from the screen. Next, you'll be directed to another screen that offers twenty preselected Twitter users of fame or else noteworthy status that you can immediately begin following.
You can deselect any or all of these suggested users that you do not wish to follow. If you click the Finish button, the users you have left as selected will be added to your list of users you're following. If you click the Skip This Step link at the bottom of the page, the twenty users won't be included as accounts you're following. Finally, after navigating beyond the two detour screens, you will arrive at the account completion screen where you're already invited to launch your first tweet.
Type in a tweet in the box labeled "What's happening?". To the right of that label, you'll see a counter that decreases while you type, letting you easily observe how many characters you've left to use. When your message is complete, simply click the Update button. After you have sent your first tweet, Twitter will refresh your home screen to show your first tweet; it's that easy.
You'll notice Twitter is also prompting you to do a couple more things out of this screen. Item 2 in the on-screen list invites you to "follow your friends"; this is the same function that you saw when you were creating your account.
If you're not certain which of your friends might be using Twitter, item 3 provides a search box where you can type in your friends' names and search to find them. Most notable, however, is the unnumbered item just below the numbered functions that encourages you to link your Twitter account to your mobile phone number, allowing you to send and receive tweets when you are away from your computer.
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