What is Twitter? Twitter is a free service that allows you to communicate with friends, family, and even co-workers about your day to day experiences and activities. Twitter gives you a place to answer one simple question, "What are you doing?" This Twitter tutorial series will help you better understand how to twitter. Before you can being to use the site you need to sign up for a Twitter account. We'll help you sign up for your account with a step-by-step guide.

With our Twitter account created, it's time to find some friends. Twitter tip 1: Twitter can import contacts from your online email account and will tell you which of your friends are already Twittering and allow you to invite those that haven't yet gotten in on the fun. Twitter tip 2: You can send an e-mail invite to individual friends that you want to have join you on Twitter. Twitter tip 3: You can search by name or by location to find other people you might be interested in following.

You can Twitter on your PC, but the real power of Twitter comes when you're mobile. Once you've registered your mobile phone with Twitter you can SMS quick posts and updates to keep your friends, family and other followers apprised of what you're up to. You can also receive SMS updates from people you follow. In this episode we'll help you setup your mobile phone with Twitter.

Twitter allows you set a variety of personal settings. In this episode we'll show you how to change notifications, how to enter your real name, change your user name, set your time zone and more. Adding a little bit of detail about yourself makes it easier for other Twitterers to know whether they should follow you.

Customizing the Twitter look is a simple way to make your profile stick out, and to make your home feel a little more personal. Your profile on Twitter isn't truly yours until you've customized it by adding a picture (whether a shot of you or some other non-copyrighted image), you can create a custom color scheme, select the design of the page and more. There are a variety of ways to customize your Twitter desktop, and we'll take you through some of the steps to do that.

One of the most important parts of using Twitter is knowing how to post your updates, also known as tweeting. It all starts with you answering the simple question: what are you doing? In this tutorial we'll show you how to post your tweet and how to communicate with other tweeters on the twitter service.

Your personal homepage on Twitter has a pretty simple layout. However, there's a lot more to this service than meets the eye. We'll help you crack the layout by examining the unique features of the layout by learning how to navigate through the different options.

There are a variety of Twitter applications that provide alternative ways to tweet. You can find many of these applications on the twitter website. Previously we talked about how you setup Twitter on your mobile phone. Now we'll look how you can set up applications to tweet from your computer or even your smart phones.

Now that you're on your way to becoming a Twitter power user, we'll show you how to use Twitter search to filter through the mass of information on Twitter to find just what's of specific interest to you at a given moment. Searching twitter can allow you to connect with other tweeters over similar interests. The search function is simple and easy. We'll show you how to use it.

Power-users in the Twitter community use special language and symbols in their updates. This language allows these power-users to alert a fellow Twitterer that you're addressing them specifically, repost a tweet, let people know something you overheard and more. Our video will demonstrate some of the Twitter language. You can also use the help section of the Twitter page to find out more about Twitter language.

Molly McDonald leads us through the basics of Twitter. From sign-up to power-user in 10 video steps, she demonstrates how to sign up for a Twitter account, customize your Twitter page, find and follow friends and family, how to sent direct messages, use the Twitter vernacular and much more.