Setting up a Twitter account was extremely easy. I have a unique last name so I didn't have to go through several iterations trying to find a user name. Thank goodness for that. Then I went to the Help page and was a bit disappointed by what was there. I like to have help topics that detail the whys and hows of whatever the Help topics cover. But I did learn a few things about Twitter and how it works.
Things I learned from Twitter Help
1. There is more than one way to find a person on Twitter. You can search by: a name; something you are interested in such as a movie or hobby; a location; or a company name. If you want to search by location, you can search for people within a certain distance of a specific location.
2. You can enhance the chance of someone finding your Twitter entry by adding a hashtag to the beginning of the word you want a search to hit upon. For example, if I want search engines or other Tweeters to hit on the word appraisal, I would type #appraisal.
3. There are limits to the number of Tweets you can have, these are called follow limits. You are limited to: 1,000 updates a day, 250 total direct messages (sort of an instance message) per day, or 150 API requests per hour. Twitter does this to stabilize the environment and hopefully, enhance reliability.
4. You can block someone from viewing your Tweets and from sending you messages providing your profile is public rather than private.
5. There are several things that you can't do in Twitter and they are adamant about these two things.
A. Domain squatting-this means you snag a name such as ChevyCars when you don't have
anything to do with GM or Chevrolet.
B. Impersonation-this means you have the Twitter name of ChevyCars and you say you
are GM.
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