If you’ve got any connection whatsoever to the web design industry, you’re either on Twitter, or you’ve got half a dozen colleagues trying to convince you to jump in. If you’re still waffling about it, read Twitter from Zero: an Introduction, as a prerequisite to this article.

Assuming you’ve taken the plunge, and now you’re staring at your blank Twitter page wondering “ok, now what?”, here’s where to start.

You may have noticed that most websites are accessible two ways: with or without the 'www.' prepended to the domain name. Both URLs serve the same content, but one of them should be declared the 'primary', or 'canonical' URL.