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**[|Twitter Fan Wiki]** **Create a Twitter account** First, you need to sign up for an account at Twitter.com: [|Click here to sign up]

**Tweet!**
Once you account is active you can begin to tweet! (An individual update posted to Twitter is called a "tweet"). Each update is limited to 140 characters. Unlike email, or instant messaging, with Twitter you choose the message, NOT the recipient.
 * Updates are public, and will automatically appear in the timelines of your followers
 * Tweets that begin with @username are public, but are directed towards a specific person
 * Direct messages are private, and must be addressed like an email (d username message)
 * #tags are used to help others find topics being discussed

**Follow**
Twitter is social. It will not reveal its value until you follow others, and others follow you.

NVSD Twitter directory [|Heidi Hass Gable's list of educators worth following]

**Finding people to follow**
One of the best ways to find people that you might be interested in following is to check out the list of who your friends are following.

[|Mr. Tweet] [|Twubble]- Expand your Twitter bubble [|Directory of Learning Professionals on Twitter] [|Just Tweet It] - Find other Twitter users like you [|Twitter4Teachers] [|TweetWheel]

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