Getting started with Twitter

Ready for this grand Twitter experiment?

• Go to Twitter.com and get yourself an account. Let your screen name be something we will recognize (you can change it later if you want to be mysterious, but for our purposes, let's accept a journalistic standard of transparency.)
• While you're there, go to Settings, then Devices, and set up your phone so you can send and receive Tweets on your mobile device aka phone. Don't forget to verify your phone. Twitter's phone number is a shortcut: 40404.
• While you're at it, you might as well set your phone up to access mobile Twitter. Only do this if a) your phone has a mobile web browser, and b) you have a ton (or unlimited) amount of minutes. The biggest downside to using the mobile Twitter site is it could easily eat a lot of minutes. Twittering itself doesn't take up minutes, it counts against your txt message limit. This might be a time to boost that txt limit to infinite.
• Take some time to browse the FAQ and quick commands pages. Sure, this all seems like it could be incredibly annoying. But don't worry, you can turn Twitter on and off with a text message command, plus you can shut out particularly annoying people individually if it comes to that. For now, let's try to stick this out and create a Public Affairs Reporting community and and see what this trend is all about.