Social Media: Twitter- Sign up and Set Up

It is easy to sign up for Twitter.

1. To sign up go to

2. Add information to set up account

Choose a username of no more than 15 characters.

Create a password using letters, numbers, special characters with no less than 6 characters. To create a good password make sure to use more than 6 characters and choose one that is hard to guess. For example, “password123” is not a good password. Make sure to use a different password from ones that you already have.

3. Confirm account

Go to your email to confirm the account.

4. Continue set up

Follow five people.

Follow five more people.

You can follow using their suggestions or type a word in the search box of an interest or name of someone to follow.

In years past, it was not part of the set up process to be required to follow people. You can remove them later, if you want, by clicking “unfollow”.

Create your bio with no more than 160 characters. If you want others to find you, make sure to put keywords with your interests in the bio.

The next part of our series will talk about how to use Twitter.