Twitter, oh I am sorry, X is a wild social media platform. People talk about everything from what’s trending to politics to international affairs to business, everything happens on X. But what I feel is that not a lot of people, especially Gen Z, don’t use X as much as say Instagram. Most have made an X account but don’t know what to do next. Today, I am going to tell you just what you need to do after making an X account.
Okay, so now you have an X account and wish to make your first tweet. Before you do that, there are certain things that you should know. Firstly, X has a strict word limit of 280 characters. So you cannot share more than 280 characters in a single tweet.
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Don’t worry, it is not exactly like you have to bind yourself in just 280 characters and have to limit information for that. If what you wish to say doesn’t fit into the character limit then you can create another tweet and thread it to the main one. Threading tweets on X is a common practice. You just go back to your original tweet and add another tweet to it or simply comment on it. You can tweet multiple times in the thread.
You can even add pictures to your tweets to make them more engaging and don’t worry, it doesn’t eat up your character limit either. You can add up to 4 photographs per tweet. If you’re using a PC then you can easily drag and drop or click on the gallery icon. You can use this on the app too.
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Videos are becoming the most popular on social media but not a lot of people use X to share those. You can even add videos to your tweets. You can either directly record a video on X, edit it, and share it or you can share one from your gallery. If you wish to record then click on the camera icon and click on the gallery icon if you want to directly upload from the gallery.
To stay updated with trends and what’s happening you need to follow people and hashtags that interest you. You can follow as many people and hashtags as you like and their latest tweets will show up first on your feed in chronological order.
That’s it, X is as simple to use as any other social media platform. And to hear about what’s happening and trending, X (formerly Twitter) should be the first platform that you check out.
