twitter screen shots - st. mary & st. joseph coptic ...smsj.ca/general/flyer/twitter screen...
TRANSCRIPT
1. Go to www.twitter.com (Red Arrow) 2. Click the ‘Sign Up’ Button (Green Arrow)
1. Type in your full name (Red Arrow) 2. Type in your desired username (Yellow Arrow) 3. Create a unique password (Green Arrow) 4. Enter your email address. Twitter will send you an email to confirm your account. (Blue Arrow) 5. The check-‐boxes are optional, you can choose to uncheck them. (Pink Arrows) 6. Click ‘Create my account’ (Black Arrow)
1. Click on ‘Next Step: Friends’ (red arrow)
1. Click ‘Skip Import’ (red arrow)
1. Now we will search for and follow the church’s account. In the search box (red arrow) type in ‘smsjchurch’ 2. Click on search.
1. The church’s account will be there – click on “Follow” (red arrow)
1. We will now enable text messages for twitter 2. Click on “Mobile” at the bottom right (red arrow)
1. Click on “Activate your phone” (red arrow)
1. Change the country to Canada (red arrow) 2. Enter your cell phone number (Yellow arrow) 3. The check-‐box under the phone number is optional (purple arrow) – you can uncheck it 4. Make sure the language is set to “English” (green arrow) 5. Click on ‘Start’ (blue arrow)
1.You now need to send a text message from your phone. Send the word that they ask for (here it asks for ‘Go’) to the number that they ask for (here they ask for 40404 as the phone number)
2.Twitter will then reply to your text message saying “Your phone is verified…” 3. Reply to their text with the words “Follow smsjchurch”
YOU ARE DONE!! You will now receive all of the church announcements on your mobile phone via text message.
Other Twitter commands (Optional)
Do more than Tweet! Send these commands to Twitter:
FOLLOW username Start following a user
UNFOLLOW username Stop following a user
ON/OFF Turn all Tweet notifications on or off
ON/OFF username Set Tweet notifications for a user on or off (you'll still be following them even if you set it to off)
GET username Shows you the latest tweet from any user
RT username Retweet a user's latest tweet
FAV username Favorite a user's latest tweet
D username your-‐message Send a direct message to a user