New to Twitter? Check out this set of screen shots from my twitter feed to help you get your head around it.

1. A presentation by Katie Underhill
So you have a Twitter account, but don’t know what all those symbols and abbreviations are.
Use these screen shots to help you!
This shows:
my profile picture,
my total number of
tweets (660), my
This is where latest tweet.
I would type
my next
tweet.
This shows: the
latest 5 people I’m
following and my
newest 5 followers.
This is my feed and
Favourites shows
it shows who I
things I’ve marked
follow. Their
as favourite
tweets show on my
because I want to
feed. They show in
bookmark them to
chronological order.
refer back to.
My latest tweet was
some time ago so it
Listed shows what
is further down in
lists I’m in which
this list.
can help for
searching. E.g.
Each tweet shows
I’m in a list called
when it was written
Brummies.
and gives options to
mark it as a
favourite, retweet Trends shows what
it or reply – see the most popular Based on my tweets and
acronyms for detail topics are on twitter current follows, Twitter
on this. right now. suggests people I may be
interested in following.

2. My profile
A presentation by Katie Underhill shows my
description of
what I tweet
about, all my
Tweets tweets in a list,
mentioning me who I’m
are listed in following, my
followers, my
here.
favourites, and
the lists I’m in.
Messages shows
all the messages
Timeline I’ve sent and
shows my received.
feed. Messages are
private.
Who to follow lets me
browse by interest,
view suggestions and
This shows find people using my
all retweets other online accounts
by other like Facebook.
people, my
retweets of
others, my
tweets
retweeted.
This shows a historical list
of what I have searched In here I can create lists and I can
Twitter for. see what lists I am being followed
in.

3. A presentation by Katie Underhill
This is my feed.
Sharon Gaskin is
someone I
follow. This is a
tweet from her
which is why
it’s on my feed.
Sharon is
talking to
@CarolineICE
which is why
she is
mentioning her
with her @
handle.
RT indicates this sentence
is a retweet by Sharon, of
something @lightningtrain
wrote. You don’t have to
type RT- it comes up #PowerPoint is a hashtag
automatically when you This is a hyperlink to a website which is useful for
press the retweet button. using a URL shortener. searching on.