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Helping you find friends on Twitter

Pt. 2 of 10 | 2:19 |

Get Twittering - Twitter for Beginners

Tuesday December 2, 2008

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.

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Beginner's Guide to Twitter series as one video!

- First search for people from your email contacts list that may already be using twitter. Just enter in your email address and choose the service that you use. Enter in your password associated with that email address.

- A list of names and pictures will appear. All these people have Twitter accounts.

- Make sure that the box next to the name is checked if you want to follow them, or unchecked if you don't.

- "Following" someone is the same idea as adding them as a friend in a social networking site or as a contact in your email.

- When you choose to follow someone, they are given the option to follow you back.

- If you want to invite people in your address book to join, Twitter will allow you to select contacts and send them an automated invitation email message.

- You can also input the email addresses of friends one at a time to invite them into the Twitter fold.

- You can also search by name or location to see which of the people you know are already Twittering and follow them.

- Twitter streams can be set to private and so you'll have to request permission to follow.

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