If Andy Kaufman had been at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society on Thursday night, the 90-minute presentation on Twitter that Jack Hodgson and I led for the Berkman Thursdays Blog Group might well have been condensed into a five-minute lightning talk — leaving us extra time to enjoy the always-important post-meetup food-and-beer session.

Here is an adaptation of Andy’s seven-step process for getting started in Twitter. I’ve replaced the names he used with some of my own Twitter friends — namely, the four participants from our presentation who’ve already accepted our challenge and started (or resumed) Twittering themselves.

  1. Go to Twitter and sign up for an account.

  2. Go to my Twitter URL (http://twitter.com/bryper)

  3. Click add bryper.

  4. Congrats, you’re now following your first person. Look at the icons in the right-hand toolbar on my page. If you see people that you’d like to follow, click on their icons and add them as well.

  5. Repeat steps 2-4 with: Alex Sherman, Critt Jarvis, Jesse Baer, and Deb Block-Schwenk. That should get you started with a stream of incoming tweets.

  6. Start sending out updates yourself. Now you’re part of the conversation!

  7. When you’re up and running, leave a comment [here] with your thoughts, along with you twitter URL.

Note: Here is Andy Kaufman’s Twitter stream.

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