So you’ve signed up with Twitter but don’t know what to do now. I decided to write this post because I over heard a guy saying the same thing as I passed him on my way to get something to eat for lunch.

Twitter is similar to Myspace or Facebook status update. Twitter, like Facebook, is a powerful networking site where you get friends, or in this case followers, and write short posts about your day, a job opening, or an extra ticket to a game that you have. Twitter asks the question, what are you doing? You have 140 characters to answer that question. Below is a video explaining Twitter in plain English.

Once you sign up with Twitter you start posting about what you are doing. Some important things to know, if you are using it primarily for networking; to direct a tweet to someone use the “@” symbol followed by their user name (ie. @letsnotlisten + message) this shows up in their “replies” tab, to make a word searchable (better for marketing) use “#word” (ie. #eleven82) and to send a direct message use the “D + username + message” (ie. d letsnotlisten message). Read all of Twitter’s support.