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The tweets are limited to 280 characters only. In Twitter, you follow people or organisations which
share similar academic and personal interests. You can create your own twitter feeds. You can also
retweet the posts created by others. If a tweet is liked by a lot of people across the globe and it gets
many likes, shares, and comments, it is said be have gone Viral. Tweets can be anything-pictures,
links, GIFs, or videos. By default, the tweets are PUBLIC on twitter. This means that anyone can view
the tweet.
Creating Account on Twitter
Follow the below steps to register with Twitter:
Step 1: Open the twitter.com website on your browser.
Step 2: Click on the Sign up button. Sign up button
Step 3: The Create your account pop-up box appears. Enter your name, phone number or email
address and date of birth. Click on the Next button.
Step 4: In the next screen, again click on the Next button.
Step 5: Review the details that you have entered. Then, click
on the Sign up button.
Step 6: It will prompt you to enter the verification code received
either on your phone or email address, which you have
entered. Click on the Next button.
Step 7: Enter a password for your account. Remember a
password should be minimum 8 characters long. It
should be a combination of uppercase and lowercase
letters, numbers, and some special characters. Creating an account
Step 8: Upload a profile picture from your device or you can skip this step by clicking on Skip for now
button.
Step 9: Write something about yourself in brief in Describe yourself pop-up box. You can skip this
step also.
Step 10: Next, select the languages you speak and mention your interests by selecting the options
available on the screen. Click on the Next button.
Step 11: Now you can select from the suggestions to follow people or organisations on twitter. You can
follow your favourite sports persons, actors, scientists, researchers, etc.
Step 12: If you want to get notified when these people post any updates, click on Allow notifications.
Step 13: The Twitter home page will open.
Step 14: To start tweeting, click on the Tweet button. You can also post your comments or send a heart
as a like to any tweet posted by others.
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