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Want to Tweet at Annual Session? Here's how! Print E-mail
Written by Wes Allen   
Friday, 25 September 2009 17:15
 During annual session this year we're encouraging people to use Twitter to add their voices to the conversation.  If you've never used Twitter, here's a brief tutorial that should get you up and running on a laptop using a popular twitter application called "TweetDeck."
  • First, go to twitter.com and sign up for a twitter account.  It's a free service, and once you're account is set up you can actually use twitter through the twitter web-site.
  • Second, sign into to twitter with your new account and type the following into the text box you see at the top of the page: follow @abcnj  (now your twitter account will get updates from the ABCNJ regional staff)
The real fun of twitter, however, is the ability to save searches.  To do that you'll need an application called a 'twitter client."  There are a lot of clients out there, but one of the best is TweetDeck.  To get up and running with this application take the following steps:
  • First, download and install TweetDeck from http://tweetdeck.com/beta/.
  • Second, when you first start up TweetDeck you'll be asked to set it up to access your account.  Fill out the same username and password you created on the twitter web-site.
  • Now for the fun part, we'll create a search.  At the top of the screen, you'll see several buttons like the ones picture below.  Click on the button that looks like a magnifying glass to start a search.
The TweetDeck button bar
 
  • A new window will pop up, in the open line, type #abcnj into the box and then enter.
The search window
  • A new column should appear on the right of the TweetDeck window.  Now, anytime a tweet is marked with #abcnj it will show up in that column!
Try it yourself during annual session.  Click on the "compose update" button (it looks like a yellow note pad) and make sure to add #abcnj to your tweets during annual session and beyond!

If you want to know more about Twitter, there is a good repository of tutorials available on the Twitter Web Site.
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