How to Use Twhirl With Twitter
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You are using Twitter more and more...but you have a couple of other micro-bloggers that you like to use as well. Well, maybe, with this article, your troubles are solved. twhirl allows you to connect with multiple accounts on Twitter, laconi.ca, Friendfeed, and Seesmic. This article will help you begin learning the software as you use it with Twitter. After you have familiarized yourself with it, try some of the others!
Steps
- Download Adobe Air. It is necessary to unpack the program for twhirl.
- Download twhirl.
- Add your account name when the program is ran for the first time. You do not need to put the '@' sign in front of it.
- Once you have added your account(s), click on one and then click on connect.
- Put in your Twitter password. If you share a computer or are not comfortable with it being in memory, don't have the program 'remember' your password.
- Once you have logged in, your current tweets will fill up the topmost window. If you don't see one you think you should, there is a scroll bar on the right.
- Once you have logged in, your current tweets will fill up the topmost window. If you don't see one you think you should, there is a scroll bar on the right.
- Examine the icons on the very bottom of twirl. They are as follows from left to right:
- Toggle - you can toggle your message screen on or off
- Home - whatever other icon you clicked, it resets your screen so you would see it as you would see your Twitter home page.
- @ - Replies - Click on it if you want to see what replies that you have received.
- Envelope - Directs - Allows you to see your Direct Messages.
- Archive - Allows you to see what is in your archive
- Heart - Allows you to see any tweets you have saved as a favorite
- Friends/Followers - You can see who is following you with this button.
- Lookup - A search for wikiHow yielded this result.
- Do a search on Twitter on a particular subject matter.
- Toggle - you can toggle your message screen on or off
- Look at the sidebar. It has some nice touches there.
- Camera - Upload a picture to share with others.
- Chain/links - Click on this to shorten a URL. Click on it, a dialog window will open for you to type your URL into, then it will become a tinyurl link.
- The number displayed is the number that you have left to type.
- Check mark - Basically, the same as the enter key
- Camera - Upload a picture to share with others.
- Hover over a tweet of someone that you would like to respond to. This brings up a little square (over the picture) with the four things you can do with/to/for that follower. The choices are Send Reply, Direct Message, Favor, or Retweet.
Related wikiHows
- How to Use Twitter
- How to Get a Lot of Followers on Twitter
- How to Use Friendbar
- How to Find Tweeters You Know
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Note: I began using Twhirl earlier this week and I really like it! Using Twhirl enabled me to follow tweeps much faster, and do so with multiple accounts. Also, it only takes moments to 'learn' how to use it.
