Lynda - Up and Running with Twitter with Maria Langer

English | Apr 07, 2014 | .MP4 | Audio: aac, 44100 Hz, mono | Video: h264, yuv420p, 1280x720, 15.00 fps(r) | 392 MB

Genre: E-learning

Join the 140-character communication revolution. Important conversations play out every day on Twitter and this fun and fast social media platform offers one of the few ways to directly engage with celebrities, companies, media outlets, and even political figures like President Obama (@BarrackObama).

Learn how to get up and running on Twitter and start engaging in a new kind of conversation. Maria Langer shows you how to set up an account; read and write tweets; add images, links, and tags to your tweets; and interact with other users via sending replies, using mentions, favoriting tweets, and sending direct messages. She also shares her insider etiquette tips for tweets and retweets, and shows how to customize your privacy settings as well as personalize your feed.

Topics include:

Creating a Twitter profile

Following Twitter users

Reading, writing, and deleting tweets

Replying to tweets

Using mentions and hashtags

Sending direct messages

Unfollowing and blocking users

Retweeting and favoriting tweets you like

Setting security and privacy options

Searching Twitter

Tweeting on the go with mobile apps

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