APICS QUICK GUIDE TO TWITTER January 19, 2016 This presentation was created by the APICS Marketing Team for members, chapters, and partners who want to use Twitter to share information.

2 © APICS Confidential and Proprietary Creating a Post  Log in to Once logged in, you will be re-directed to your profile page.  To create a post, click in the box that says, “What’s happening?” or select the “Tweet” button in the top right corner.

3 © APICS Confidential and Proprietary Creating a Post (continued) Add your copy in the space provided and select “Tweet.” You are limited to 140 characters. Once you select “Tweet” your post will be published.

4 © APICS Confidential and Proprietary Adding a Link Add a link. You can add a link to your tweet by simply pasting it directly in the space provided. Remember that the URL will count towards your 140 characters. If your URL is very long, you can create a shorter version by switching to a bit.ly. Go to Paste your full URL into the space provided and select “shorten.” Copy the shortened URL and paste into your tweet.

5 © APICS Confidential and Proprietary Adding an Image Select the “Media” icon below your text and then select the image from your computer and click “Open.”

6 © APICS Confidential and Proprietary Retweet a Post When you find an interesting post that you would like to share with your audience, you can retweet another user’s post. Select the icon with two arrows.

7 © APICS Confidential and Proprietary Retweet a Post (continued) You can add a comment to the original post, or simply retweet the same content that the original profile posted.

8 © APICS Confidential and Proprietary Reply to a Post When you would like to engage with a user directly, you can tweet to them one of two ways. Go to the user’s profile, and select the “Tweet to [User name]” button from the column on the left. By selecting this button, the user’s twitter handle (ie: name) will automatically appear in your post.

9 © APICS Confidential and Proprietary Reply to a Post The other way to tweet to someone directly is by manually typing the user’s handle into the post.

10 © APICS Confidential and Proprietary Like a Post If you like another user’s tweet, but don’t have anything to say about it, you can simply “like” it by selecting the heart icon below their post.