Twitter is allow more than just posting
your own updates it also allows you to
follow tweets from other users so you
can see what's going on and connect with
the people who are important to you in
this example I'm using the Twitter app
for iPhone so I'm going to select the
more button to see a list of suggested
users and this process should be pretty
similar if you're using Twitter on a
different device for example in a
desktop web browser look for the who to
follow box then select view all a list
of suggested accounts to follow will
appear and if you see when you like just
tap the follow button if you change your
mind
just tap the button again and select
unfollow to unfollow that user
when you start following someone their
tweets will appear in your timeline
if you want to connect with another
Twitter user more directly you can
mention them in a tweet this is also
referred to as starting a conversation
on Twitter select the new tweet button
then type the at symbol followed by the
username you want to mention in this
post because you're using the username
system to do this this is also called
tweeting at somebody when you tweet at
someone like this they'll receive a
notification they can then reply
directly to you by choosing the reply
button and then posting their message
and you'll see that it pulled in the at
username part automatically here since
this is already part of a conversation
we started conversations can often span
multiple tweets and as a result when you
use Twitter like this your tweets won't
appear in your timeline by default let's
say your followers don't really have to
look at this if they're not interested
but if you are posting something you
want your followers to see there's an
easy option just put a period at the
very beginning of your tweet that will
cause it to appear in your public
timeline so anyone can see it okay
here's our reply and we can see that
these tweets are connected because
they're part of the same conversation
one other thing we want to point out is
the direct messaging feature you can
send a private message to anyone who
follows you on Twitter and it's not
limited to 140 characters that makes it
a lot more like email so if you're
meeting people through Twitter this is a
great way to introduce yourself and
reach out with just a little more
information than you could normally
include in a tweet just select the
messages icon to see your options from
there you can select any user you want
and start sending them a message
so how will you connect on Twitter now
that you've seen all the options you can
think about them more carefully and
choose the ones that work for you