A Tour of Your Twitter Homepage

Anatomy of a Homepage Home button Feed

• Expanding Tweets• Collapsing Tweets

Main Profile Summary Connect

• Interactions• Mentions

Search Bar Profile Button Where to Compose a Tweet

Anatomy of a Homepage

When you sign in to Twitter, you will see a page like this. We’ll learn about some key aspects of these Twitter elements.

Feed

Main ProfileSummary

Search Profile &Messages

InteractionsHome New Tweet

Home Button

This is your homepage. If you see a blue light underneath this area,It means you have tweets to view in your feed.

Feed• Expanding Tweets• Collapsing Tweets

The feed area displays tweets from you and your followers in reverse chronological order. You can click on an individual tweet to see more detail about it...

…like this!

When you want to collapse tweets, click here.

Main Profile Summary

This clickable area displays information related to your profile: your profile page, your tweets, users who follow you and those who you follow.

Connect• Interactions• Mentions

If you see a blue light under ‘Connect’, you should click on it. There are a few reasons why a light sometimes appears here...

The interactions section of ‘Connect’ shows when you’ve been @mentioned, followed by someone else or one of your tweets has been ‘favourited’.

To see only your @mentions, click on ‘Mentions’, just below the ‘Interactions’ tab. It shows instances of your username being mentioned.

Search Bar

This is the search button. You can use it to search for people, words or categories of information.

Google is the best way to search usernames and keywords but the search function is a good way to save hashtag searches.

Profile Button

This is your profile button. You can click on it to view or change your profile information or see private messages sent directly to you.

This is the display you’ll see if you click the profile button.We’re going to check the private or ‘direct’ messages.

A blue circle beside a message means it is unread. To read and reply to it, click on the message.

Where toCompose a Tweet

This blue button is one of the places on your homepage where you can compose a new tweet. (The other place is beneath your tweet count.)

While this is not an exhaustive list of the features and actionsavailable with your new Twitter account, hopefully it helps you to begin to make your way. Best wishes!

Congratulations!