Follow ISU Athletics on Twitter The Illinois State Athletics Twitter page provides up-to-the-minute updates on all things pertaining to Redbird Athletics, as well as breaking news, insight and commentary about YOUR Redbirds.

Want to follow all things pertaining to Illinois State Athletics but you're not always around your computer or at your favorite Web site, GoRedbirds.com? Well now, the Illinois State Athletics Department has made it easy to follow YOUR Redbirds any time you want with the exclusive Illinois State Athletics page on Twitter.

You can find the Illinois State Athletics page on Twitter by searching for "ISURedbirds" at Twitter.com. The Illinois State Athletics Twitter page is updated throughout the day with "Tweet" (messages sent via Twitter) that contain breaking Redbird Athletics news, up-to-the-minute headlines, insight, links to video clips and other exclusive multimedia offerings that can't be found anywhere else.

You can receive Illinois State Athletics updates via Twitter through the Web at ISU's official Twitter page, on your mobile phone, via instant messaging (IM) or through e-mail. Whichever way you choose, you will always stay up to date with YOUR Redbirds!

Redbird Athletics fans can add the ISURedbirds Twitter page to their own blog, Facebook page or other social networking site. More information on how to do this can be found here.

For those who are unfamiliar with Twitter, GoRedbirds.com is here to provide you with helpful links and information on what exactly is Twitter, how you use it and what you can get out of following the official ISU Athletics Twitter page:

WHAT IS TWITTER?
Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users' updates (otherwise known as "tweets"), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length.

HOW DO I SIGN UP, OR "FOLLOW," THE ILLINOIS STATE ATHLETICS TWITTER PAGE?
Great question. Signing up (called "following" in Twitter lingo) for the Illinois State Athletics Twitter page is very easy. Just log on to Twitter.com and search "ISURedbirds." Alternatively, you can go directly to the Illinois State Athletics Twitter page by clicking here. Either way you go about accessing the Redbird Athletics Twitter page, you will need to click on the button in the upper-left hand corner of the page that says "Follow." This will allow you to instantly access up-to-date news about YOUR Redbirds via Twitter.

WHY WOULD ILLINOIS STATE ATHLETICS ADD ITS OWN TWITTER PAGE
Simply put, we want to engage our fans with THEIR favorite Illinois State Athletics teams, student-athletes and coaches as much as possible, and one of the best ways to do that is by proving our fans with a continuous stream of updated information in a format they are already using, such as IMs, texting, the Web and e-mail.

Click on the links below to follow the ISU Athletics Twitter page via the Web, IM/text messages and a RSS feed:

Follow ISU on Twitter via the Web | Follow ISU on Twitter via Texts/IMs | Follow ISU via a RSS Feed

For more information on Twitter, applications that make Twitter easier and more functional to use, or just cool things you can do with Twitter, please visit the external links below:

Twitter on Wikipedia | Add Twitter to Your Blog, Web site, Facebook page, etc. |   Twitter in Plain English

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