Characters You Can Use In Your Twitter Posts

Character Code Character Code
€ Alt+0128 ® Alt+0174
… Alt+0133 ± Alt+0177
• Alt+0149 ² Alt+0178
™ Alt+0153 ³ Alt+0179
¡ Alt+0161 1/4 Alt+0188
¢ Alt+0162 1/2 Alt+0189
£ Alt+0163 3/4 Alt+0190
¥ Alt+0165 × Alt+0215
© Alt+0169 ÷ Alt+0247
To type one of these characters, hold down Alt and type the four-digit code using your keyboard’s

Setting Your Twitter Picture If the

If the eyes are the windows of the soul, your
Twitter picture is the window of your account.
Sort of. To see what I mean, check out the list
of Twitterers shown in figure 2.3 (this is a list
of the people a particular account is following).
See the picture in the lower right corner?

What Can I Do to Customize My Twitter Profile?

When you created your Twitter account, you only had to specify three things about yourself: your
name, the Twitter username you preferred, and a password for your account. That made the signup
procedure blessedly quick, but it doesn’t give folks much to chew on when they access your profile.
Fortunately, Twitter lets you fill in a few more details after your account is set up, including your
time zone, your Web site address, a short bio, your location in the real world, and the language you

Deleting Your Twitter Account

I have the feeling that you’re going to love Twitter, but it’s also true that microblogging isn’t for everyone. The constant pressure to answer the canonical Twitter question “What are you doing?” may simply become too much after a while. If taking a short break doesn’t help (I’m talking about a few days or even a few weeks, not a few minutes), then you can walk away and move on with your life. You could opt to let your account lie dormant (it is, after all, free), but if there are updates

you want to get rid of, or if you don’t want new people to follow you, then you should delete your

How Do I Get Started with Twitter?

If all you want out of Twitter is to read a particular Twitterer’s updates, then you don’t need to bother
creating your own account. Instead, point your favorite Web browser to http://twitter.com/user, where
user is the person’s user name on Twitter, and then peruse the updates that appear on the page.