I want to point out a few things about a standard Twitter account
that you should be aware of when you actually set up your first account.
And the first thing you want to do is pay attention to the name I am stuck with,
KayUOIT, I just did that quickly, but it's very hard to change after
once you've done that because everybody knows me as KayUOIT.
And so you want to think carefully about the name that you're putting there.
You can always change this name, but you can't change the actual @KayUOIT.
And by the way when someone asks you about your Twitter account
you would say it's at, well, you wouldn't say at KayUOIT,
but it'd be at and then the name you chose.
A single thing you want to remember
is that you need to put in some sort of picture here.
Now I've put a picture of myself, because I don't mind doing that.
Some of you might not feel comfortable with that, and that's fine,
you can put in any kind of design or symbol or something that represents the theme
that you want to portray for your Twitter account.
Okay so you want to think about that and so you put a friendly dog in there,
if you want you can put anything in there.
People like to see professional sorts of images
so either a picture of you or some sort of design logo.
Alright so that's the second thing you want to be aware of
you don't want the egg which is the default the other thing that you want to be aware of
is a twitter banner and you'll have to look
up the actual dimensions about putting one in.
I actually got a picture and then I went and then I put in these labels
and put that in there and it takes a little time to do that,
but it's well worth it it's worth having some image
that sort of communicates what you are about.
Now it can be something friendly like nature and maybe things are gentle right now
and you don't need to put a title, that's fine but having a banner is a good idea.
The other thing you need to be aware of is that
you can't here are the tweets as in the short messages
or links that I send out, the number of people that I am following,
the number of people that are following me, and the number of likes that I have put in
or I have selected when I've liked a particular tweet.
So when you see a tweet you can do a couple of things
somebody you know if I send this out someone can retweet it
and when they do that they send that out on their accounts
so they're sort of saying hey I like this
and I want to send it out to people that are following me.
They can also like an account
or like a message if they if they wish. And you can click here for more options
if you would like to explore but I'll keep it simple right now.
The other important thing here is searching
so when you want to search for a message you can type in anything here.
Now a lot of people use something called a hash tag
or a number sign and then they can put in I could put an EdTech for example
and that would find out everything that I want in terms of educational technology
but I don't need the hash tag I can just search up for things
that I'm interested in and those tweets
or the leading tweets will come up and if I want to create a tweet
I would just click on this and I can compose my tweet.
You don't have a hundred and forty characters I can add images typically I might add a link
as well there's all kinds of things
you could add a poll I don't see it used very often.
So the other thing you can do is go to people's account.
So say you went to my account which is at KayUOIT
and you might like to be you go to more if you're not sure who to follow
and you go to less so then you might come up here and say "oh whoa look at the top 50 edutech
influencers, I might like to actually be on that list,"
and so you could choose to subscribe and you can also just take a look
at the kinds of things that are posted from the leading experts,
those are good tweets to retweet and I highly recommend it.
And finally to get back to your account at any point once you log in
just click on view profile and you were returned.