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Chapter 1: How Do I Get Started with Twitter?
First, send your Web browser to http://status.twitter.com/ to open the Twitter Status page, which
displays updates on Twitter’s woes and worries, as shown in Figure 1.4.
Alternatively, visit the @twitter account by checking out http://twitter.com/twitter, shown in
Figure 1.5.
1.4 Drop by the Twitter Status page to keep an eye on Twitter’s health.
Ideally, you should follow @twitter so you see the service updates automatically. See
Chapter 4 to learn how to follow folks on Twitter.
If you’re wondering about the @ symbol that appears periodically throughout the
book, know it’s a kind of Twitter shorthand that means “the Twitterer with the
username.” So @twitter means “the Twitterer with the username twitter.”
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