What You Can Gain and Share With Twitter
Twitter.com is a free service that allows users to publish short messages of 140 characters or less.
These messages are read by "followers" - people who make a conscious decision to subscribe to your messages and have them delivered to their own Twitter home pages.
Professional colleagues, friends, family, and co-workers can use Twitter to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?
How to Sign up for Twitter
1. Twitter.com Click on the "Join the Conversation" button in middle of the page.
2. Fill out basic information. This will include your full name, preferred user name, password and e-mail address. Remember that the user name is what people will see with an "@" symbol in front of it.
3. See if your friends are on Twitter. After you fill out basic info, you'll be prompted to look for friends in your Gmail, Yahoo, MSN, Hotmail or AOL accounts so you can begin following them if they're already on the service.
4. Mark that you want to follow BIO Convention. Twitter will suggest some people for you to follow as well. Check to see if anyone of them are relevant.
5. Setting up your profile. Click on "settings" in the upper right hand corner of your Twitter home page. You'll be brought to a tab-based menu that helps you build your profile and adjust settings.
6. Fill in the fields. Of particular importance is the "one line bio" under the "Account" tab. You have 160 characters to present yourself to the Twitter community. Many people choose to state their profession, and then maybe something outside of work that interests them as well. CIO's C.G. Lynch (@cglynch), for instance, has the following: "Staff Writer at CIO, New England Sports Fan."
7. Start looking for followers regardless of how many people you found through e-mail search and Twitter's suggestions, start looking around for people you might find interesting. Use search.twitter.com.
8. Now that you have a Twitter account, tell your friends your username or send them the link to your Twitter page. Each users has his own page, in the form twitter.com/username.
How to Twitter to the BIO Convention Followers
1. Place a #BIOconvention in your Tweet and it will post through us.
Sample tweet: Getting ready for the Biosimilars session at BIO in Chicago May 4 Room 123. Anyone care to meet before hand?#BIOconvention
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