- Understanding Social Networking
- Using Facebook on Your iPad
- Using Pinterest on Your iPad
- Using Twitter on Your iPad
- Using LinkedIn on Your iPad
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Using Twitter on Your iPad
You may have heard of Twitter, even if you haven’t used it yourself. It’s one of the more popular social media networks out there, although it isn’t that widely used by those 50 and up. It’s most popular among users in their twenties and thirties—and among politicians and celebrities reaching out to large audiences.
Twitter is kind of like Facebook, but with only posts—called tweets—and no groups or pages or any of that. Tweets are short posts (280 characters or less), kind of like text messages, although they can include photos, videos, and links to pages on the Web.
As happens with the other social networks, you identify people you want to follow, then you see all of their tweets in your feed. People who follow you see your tweets in their feed.
Read Tweets
Twitter is completely free to use. You have to sign up to use it, however, which you can do from the Twitter app, available for free from Apple’s App Store.
Tap the Twitter icon to open the Twitter app.
Tap the Home icon to display your feed. Tweets from people you follow are listed here.
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To “like” a tweet, tap the Heart icon.
To retweet a tweet (that is, post it to the people who follow you), tap the Retweet icon, and then tap Retweet.
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Create a New Tweet
Tweets can be a maximum of 280 characters long. You can include photos, videos, and web links in your tweets.
From the Twitter app, tap the New Tweet icon at the top of the screen.
Use the onscreen keyboard to enter the text for your tweet. Remember to make it no more than 280 characters long!
To tweet a photo or video, tap the Photo icon and then select a photo or video stored on your phone. (The photo or video doesn’t count toward the 280-character limit.)
Tap the Tweet button to post your tweet.
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