In this video I'll walk you through five top tips for Twitter in 2020. Starting
with email notifications how you enable disable those, secondly switching between
Twitter accounts on the desktop. Thirdly direct messages the options to have
someone direct message you even if they're not following you.
Fourthly how you can see either top tweets or the most recent tweets in your
display and finally Twitter display options the size of the font the way
it's displayed the colorization all that sort of thing. We'lll look at all
of that in the following few minutes. Here we go. In this video I'll talk you
through how you can go through your Twitter email notifications to make sure
you don't receive all those emails from your account that you don't really want
Now particularly if you've got a fairly new account on Twitter you might
want to check you haven't got email because automatically by default it should
be enabled. So you may be getting emails about people following you on Twitter
all kinds of activities suddenly brought into it. You just go to the settings and
privacy and then you need to click on notifications and here you'll see
preferences so you'll see SMS notifications so if you have that enabled
you get text messages you certainly want to turn that off if it's not there we
have to enter a phone number to do that push notifications are the standard ones
that when you're not on Twitter you're not getting notified by your web browser
about what's going on but the most important one is the email notification.
So we'll click on there you'll see if you've got it enabled then you can have
a selection of different things you want to get notified about top tweets
and stories I'd turn that off. News from Twitter etc all these things
include the simplest way by far is just to go through the email notification
section and just turn that off completely and that will stop
all the emails coming through from Twitter and then you can decide which
ones you'd like to receive later on. enable them one by one. In this video
I'll show you how you can switch between Twitter accounts on the desktop using
the add existing account button. Here we go.
So now just like on the mobile app you can switch easily between different
Twitter accounts without having to log out and log on as somebody else.
Obviously you have to log in each time but once you've logged in you can switch
between them. Okay so what you do is you go down to where it says below tweet you
know the account you are using. You got the option to log out there but you can now
say add an existing account and you just need to enter the email and password for
that account. Or as in this case the username on Twitter and password and
then click login I think in this case it's just an account I've used very
recently so I just need to put in this confirmation code and so now I'm logged
in. Okay so I'll say that's correct and now I can go back down here click on
drop down and go back to the original account logged in us. So really
convenient if you've got multiple accounts to handle I often found it
difficult I had to log out each time just to be able to access another
clients Twitter account so that's an improvement to the interface adding an
existing account.
Twitter messages or direct messages are a way to send private communication to other Twitter members and you can enable even if they
don't follow you to allow people to send you messages maybe if you're a customer
service business you may want to do that I'll show you how in this video. Here we
go. So you simply go to messages from your home feed and you can sort of get a
summary the first couple of lines of each message but not so much detail
because when you send a message you can have an unlimited number of characters
not limited to the 160 characters for a tweet you've got as
many characters as you like I believe up to 10,000 characters so you can have
actual conversations with people have a look you can send them
lengthy information you could maybe automate that in some way so lots of
different options you can send pictures gifs, smiley faces but as I
say you can actually have it specified so that they don't need to be a follower.
Because that was a problem people would try and get in touch with companies but
because they're not following them and following them back
they wouldn't be able to message. So although you can't do
anything about other people's direct messages what you can do is enable your
own settings to allow people to message you. You may not want to do that necessarily
if you're looking to avoid spam accounts that kind of thing you will probably
open yourself up to it but at least it gives a communication line in case you
need to hear from people directly. so what you do is you go to more and you go
to settings and privacy and you go to privacy and safety you
can see here receive messages from anyone, You'll be able to receive direct
messages even if you don't follow them you can learn more there. There you go
but essentially by checking that box anybody who just wants to get in touch
about anything at all can do. Now just what we're here you can also see read
receipts as well so you can have them shown so someone sends you a message
you'll see when you've actually seen it. If you turn it off then you're not able
to see whether other people have got rid of this as well so it's probably a good
idea to show that read receipt and a good idea to leave the quality filter on to
improve the kind of spam type accounts that I'm talking about. So that's it
direct messages on Twitter you can have multiple people and a direct message
conversation this is not just one-to-one you can include multiple people in it
Lots of different things you can look at it certainly moved on away from the
original Twitter direct messages which most people try to avoid in my
experience because it was so full of spam there's a lot more options around
personalizing communication all the time
When you're viewing the Twitter newsfeed
you have a choice of the top tweets which is the default position or you can
view the latest tweet I'll show you how to change between those in this video
Here we go So here I am on the home feed and if you go here to the star icon or
some kind of star night-sky icon at the moment it's set to showing you the top
tweets first that means Twitter's applying its own algorithms did you
choose which content it wants to show you first alternately can go to the
latest tweets instead so if I say latest tweets you'll see latest tweets
as they happen so one second ago someone tweeted there so that gives you more of
a current time critical thing. Particularly useful I suppose if you're
looking at a particular event happening on Twitter and you want to see things
happening in real time but if you want to switch back you just go there and say
go back home and you'll see the top tweets first. As it mentions there you
can also view your content preferences. They are effectively what you look in terms
of search what content you can see. Are you allowed to see anything marked of deemed as
sensitive and do you want to not include blocked and muted accounts in the
results of those searches and also the explore settings we can show content
locally to you what's happening around you right now or you can turn that off
as well, And if it changes the location to a different one So that's how you
switch between top tweets and the latest tweets
It used to always be the latest tweets but now you have that much
more curated view from Twitter which helps you determine what you want to see
more regularly and probably improve your experience for you
Did you know that you can customize how you view Twitter by going to display
settings you change the font size color palette all that sort of thing I'll show
you how in this video. Here we go. So you just need to go to the more optional
menus and then go to display and here you can see it affects all the Twitter
accounts you use on this same web browser they're only visible to you and
I can increase the font size from medium there to much larger so bigger
appearance I'll go back to the moderate change the background color pipe from
the standard blue to different variations so maybe something to suit
your branding and you can also have the background being darker or even fully
dark like that depending on how you prefer to operate so then that will
apply as I say to all the Twitter accounts you use on that browser So
that's how it's done very simple