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2. Click Mail, Contacts & Calendars.
The Mail, Contacts & Calendars window appears.
3. Click your Twitter account to display your Twitter info, as shown in Figure 5.1.
System Preferences
prompts you for your Twitter username and password.
5.1
The Mail, Contacts & Calendars preferences is where OS X Mountain Lion saves your Twitter info.
4. Click Update Contacts.
OS X asks you to confirm.
5. Click Update Contacts.
6. Type your Twitter username and your Twitter password.
7. Click Sign In.
OS X signs in to your Twitter account.
Sending a tweet
Although signing in to your Twitter account is useful for seeing notifications that tell you about mentions and
direct messages, you'll mostly use it for sending tweets to your followers. For example, if you come across a
web page that you want to share, you can tweet a link to that page. You can also take a picture using Photo
Booth and tweet that picture to your followers or use it as your Twitter avatar. Also, with your permission,
many third-party apps are able to use your sign-in information to send tweets from the apps without requiring
separate Twitter logins for each program.
For example, here are the steps to follow to tweet a web page:
1. Use Safari to navigate to the web page you want to share.
2. Click the Share icon and then click Twitter, as shown in Figure 5.2.
OS X displays the Twitter share
sheet. The link appears as an attached page inside the tweet.
