Setting Up Your Twitter Account
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To set up your Twitter account, go to www.twitter.com and click on the “Join Today” button.
Follow the on-screen instructions… and if you need additional help, watch the video above.
Creating your account is very easy and should only take a couple minutes. That said, here are a few things to keep in mind as you create your account.
- Many people/schools have the same name. Therefore, you may find that when trying to register your Twitter username, that the name your seeking is already taken. If this is the case, you are going to have to get creative and come up with an alternative username. For example, try abbreviations as I have done for my username at http://www.twitter.com/smschools.
- If, for some reason, you are not yet ready to use Twitter, I suggest you go ahead and create a Twitter account anyway. As Twitter becomes more and more popular, more and more usernames will become unavailable. If you find that the username for your business/school is available, go ahead and register that username. There are already people and businesses selling Twitter usernames, just like they do for website domain names and other online properties, so be sure to grab your username as soon as you possibly can.
- In addition to grabbing the username for your organization, you may also want to go ahead and register a Twitter account for yourself using your own personal name, if it isn’t already taken.
- Finally, when entering the email address that is to be associated with your Twitter account, I recommend entering an email address that does not belong to a single individual person, but instead, belongs to the organization as a whole. For example, instead of registering your Twitter account with susanflanders@unionhighschool.com, you would register the account with the generic contact@unionhighschool.com. This way, if Susan were to ever leave, it would be effortless for anyone else to take over the account and the Twitter responsibilities.
The entire set up process should take just a matter of minutes. After your finished, click here and learn how to customize your Twitter profile with your logo, mission statement, website, and colors.
Send all questions to contact@socialmediaschools.com and we will respond within 24 hours!
