How to setup your Twitter account
I'm sure you can figure this out on your own...but just in case, here are all the details. :)
Note: they are constantly changing their pages so some directions may not be exact...
Create a Twitter account:
- Go to www.twitter.com
- Click the Sign up now button
- ...answer the questions
- ...click Create my account
- ...you can skip all the See if your friends are on Twitter steps...
- You should now be at your Twitter homepage!
Now you need to find and "follow" the King's Schools Robotics Twitter account:
- From your Twitter home page, click the Find people link at the top.
- In the "Find accounts and follow them" page, click the Find on Twitter tab.
- In the "Who are you looking for?" search box, enter KingsRobotics and click the search button.
- Click the Follow button (1st of the 3 little buttons to the right).
- You are now following me and will get updates everything I "tweet".
Now you need to register your cellphone:
- At the side of your Twitter home page should be a What's next? section.
- Click the Turn on your mobile phone link.
- Enter your cellphone number in the box...
- including your area code
- make sure there is a "+1" in the 1st box ... this is the country code for the U.S.
- Uncheck the Let others find me by my phone number checkbox option.
- Click Save
- You will be shown a code on the next page...text that code to 40404.
- You now need to wait for Twitter to validate your number...you'll get a text when it is done.
Just two more steps to take!
- Active your phone to follow the team twitter account:
- Text "on" to 40404.
- Text "follow KingsRobotics" to 40404.
- ...please note those are two separate text msgs...
- Protect your tweets to help prevent random people trying to contact you:
- Go to your settings page, Account tab and click the Protect my tweets checkbox option.
- ...doing this should protect you from random people trying to contact you.
You should be good to go! You'll now start to get team information as text messages.