twitter

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**Setting Up your Twitter Account for an Grade 9 Explorer Project** > >
 * Use your ASW email account
 * Use your first name and first initial of your last name
 * Password must be at least 6 characters
 * Your Twitter username will be that of the explorer you will be researching
 * There will be more than one Columbus, etc., in a class. Your will be assign an explorer and an number.
 * Twitter/Explorer usernames will be constructed like this: ** ASW Lastname Block Number **//.//
 * The user names for the 1st explorer in Block A would look like this:
 * **ASWColumbus-A1 | ASWCortes-A1 | ASWdaGama-A1 | ASWMagellan-A1 | ASWPizzaro-A1 |ASWRicci-A1 |ASWZhengHe-A1**
 * You simply need to change the block letter and the number of the explorer