Welcome to week 2, we now have over 40 people on the Tweet-along!
This week we are going to work on adding people to follow.
If you are using Twitter from a computer you will see a box on your Twitter home page that says "Who to follow." Twitter will offer you suggestions based on your profile and other people you follow.
You can refresh this box and get new choices, or you can choose Find Friends and let Twitter have access to your address book to look for people you know with Twitter accounts.
On your phone you want to go to your Twitter home page by opening the app and tapping the Me icon in the corner. At the top of your page you will see a head with a plus sign, tap this for suggestions and to find people.
When you are reading your Twitter feed you can click/tap on the profile picture or name of a user and you will be taken to a Profile Summary. Here you can choose to Follow that user.
Your goal this week is to follow people! This is how you build your network. You can follow local friends, teachers, schools, stores, the Deerfield Review, plus famous people, sports teams- the list goes on and on. You can always use the search box to find someone or something you are looking for. We will get into searches more a little later.
If you are a little more advanced and you are following lots of users already, you might want to think about cleaning up your Following list and to Unfollow some that are no longer needed. Just click/tap on your Following list and then tap Unfollow.
If you are a Power User- consider making Lists of the users you Follow. You can read through the lists to see just what those users are sharing. For example, you can make a list of Bannockburn users and you will see only their tweets. It's a nice way to organize your tweets so you see like-minded tweets together.
To find lists while using the Twitter app on your phone go to the Me icon and then scroll down to the bottom. Go to Lists and you can use the + sign to create lists and organize the users you follow.
Let me know if you need help with anything!
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