{"id":1297,"date":"2012-02-05T21:46:24","date_gmt":"2012-02-05T21:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jonhartley.com\/blog\/?p=1297"},"modified":"2013-09-01T22:16:22","modified_gmt":"2013-09-01T21:16:22","slug":"set-up-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonhartley.com\/index.php\/set-up-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Set up: Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jonhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Twitter_Icon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1918\" alt=\"Twitter_Icon\" src=\"http:\/\/jonhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Twitter_Icon.png\" width=\"256\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jonhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Twitter_Icon.png 256w, https:\/\/jonhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Twitter_Icon-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/jonhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Twitter_Icon-75x75.png 75w, https:\/\/jonhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Twitter_Icon-148x148.png 148w, https:\/\/jonhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Twitter_Icon-31x31.png 31w, https:\/\/jonhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Twitter_Icon-38x38.png 38w, https:\/\/jonhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Twitter_Icon-215x215.png 215w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There are hundreds of different sites explaining step by step how to set up a Twitter account. None better than here at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/support.twitter.com\/groups\/31-twitter-basics\/topics\/104-welcome-to-twitter-support\/articles\/100990-how-to-sign-up-on-twitter\">Twitter headquarters<\/a>\u00a0(Of course!)<\/p>\n<p>Before set up I would like to emphasise the following:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Twitter username\/handle:<\/strong>\u00a0make sure you choose a name that explains either who you are or what you are about.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Profile:<\/strong>\u00a0you only have 160 characters to explain yourself. Make best possible use of them. If you are an artist then include the word artist. People searching artist will then find you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Picture:<\/strong>\u00a0it has been statistically proven that Twitter users who post a picture of themselves on their Twitter account have an easier time finding followers. It&#8217;s sort of like a dating game you know!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Make yourself easy to follow:<\/strong>\u00a0there is an option allowing you to vet tweeters before they are allowed to become your followers. Do not check this option. You can always block\u00a0<em>tweeple<\/em>\u00a0later if their contribution is deemed unsavoury or (worse) just plain boring.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s that set up link again:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/support.twitter.com\/groups\/31-twitter-basics\/topics\/104-welcome-to-twitter-support\/articles\/100990-how-to-sign-up-on-twitter\">Twitter set up<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[subscribe2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; There are hundreds of different sites explaining step by step how to set up a Twitter account. None better than here at\u00a0Twitter headquarters\u00a0(Of course!) Before set up I would like to emphasise the following: Twitter username\/handle:\u00a0make sure you choose a name that explains either who you are or what\u2026<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jonhartley.com\/index.php\/set-up-twitter\/\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[134,184,65,209],"tags":[208,34],"class_list":["post-1297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software-instruction","category-techy-stuff","category-twitter-2","category-twitter-support","tag-follow","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonhartley.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonhartley.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonhartley.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonhartley.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonhartley.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1297"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jonhartley.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1920,"href":"https:\/\/jonhartley.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions\/1920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonhartley.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonhartley.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonhartley.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonhartley.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}