Twitter, a social networking site launched in 2006, is undoubtedly one of the most popular social media platforms available today, with 100 million daily active users and 500 million tweets sent daily. Twitter can be used to receive news, follow high-profile celebrities, or stay in-touch with old high school friends.
But its popularity can be intimidating if you don’t know how to use Twitter in 2019, you should even try to join the masses who’ve acquired years of experience on the site. Twitter began as an SMS-based platform, so the 140 character limit was initially simply a necessity mobile carriers imposed the limit, not Twitter.
However, as Twitter grew to become a web platform, they kept the limit simply because it aligned with Twitter’s brand. Twitter is a platform that aims to create highly skimmable content for our tech-heavy, attention-deficit modern world. Twitter has grown exponentially over the past 10+ years. Its purpose is ultimately to spread information fast
Features Of Twitter
- Allow Tweets directed to a group of people (“group tweet”)
- Display meta data through hover tooltips
- Use the sidebar more effectively to display information
- Add a page that displays tweets mentioning your username
- Highlight specific users, deemphasize others in feed
- Add a Built-in URL shortener
- Enable grouping of friends and followers
- Auto Complete in Tweets
- Text links in tweets
- Tweets-threading
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Steps To Register Twitter Account
- Visit Twitter official sign up page Here
- On the sign up type in your Full name, email address and password.
- Tick to agree to Twitter terms and conditions.
- Click on the Sign Up button to proceed.
- The next page will request for your country and phone number to verify it. you can skip the step if you wish to do it later. it’s important you don’t skip.
- Type in your country and phone number then hit the next button.
- A code will be sent immediately to your mobile number.
- On the next window you will need to enter the code sent to you mobile number.
- After that, click on the verify button to verify.
- If you didn’t receive the code on your mobile number.
- Then below the input box on the verification window, you will see Re-send Text and Edit Phone number.
- You can choose one of the option depending on what you feel the challenge is.
- Your account is ready but we have one more step to completely set it up. Below you will see a sample of what you will get if you don’t verify you email.
- Now you will need to check your email box for a mail from Twitter.
- Tap on the Resend confirmation if you didn’t receive the mail.
- Open the mail, on it you will see a Confirmation button. click it to proceed to verification.
- Your Twitter account is ready for use. you can now proceed to your Profile set up like uploading of Profile Photo, Add banner, Bio, Location and Date of birth.
- Finally, you can start tweeting and have fun.
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How To Retweet Tweet On Web
- Hover over a Tweet.
- Click the Retweet icon.
- A pop-up will show you the Tweet and a comment box.
- Type your own comments in the Add a comment field.
- Click the Tweet button.
- The Tweet will then be shared with your followers as a quote Tweet!
How To Retweet Tweet On mobile apps
- Tap the Retweet icon.
- Tap Quote Tweet.
- Add a comment and tap Tweet.
- The Tweet will then be shared with your followers as a quote Tweet!
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