The University of Dayton Women's Basketball Team has joined the latest Internet crazes and created its own Twitter and Facebook accounts.

With the launch of UD Women's Basketball official Twitter account, Twitter.com/DaytonWBball, fans can receive instant updates, or "tweets," directly from the team via the Internet or on their mobile phones.

The Flyers have also launched a Facebook page for fans to join. The fan page, "Dayton Women's Basketball," will provide fans with recent news, links and the chance to network with other Flyer fans and Facebook friends. The group will also feature a "wall" for fans to post comments on. All comments will be moderated and are subject to deletion.

Users can join the Facebook page by clicking on the link above or by logging on to www.Facebook.com and typing in "Dayton Women's Basketball" into the search engine. Users must have a Facebook account to join.

What Is Twitter?
Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other users' updates known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length which are displayed on the user's profile page and delivered to other users who have subscribed to them (known as followers).

The service is free to use over the Internet and mobile phones.

What is Facebook?
Facebook is a free-access social networking website. Users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region to connect and interact with other people. People can also add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves.

To sign up for a free account, login to Facebook.com.

How to set up your Twitter account:
1. Visit www.twitter.com and click "Get Started."

2. Enter your name and email address, and choose a username and password.

3. If you would like to send and receive Twitter updates from your cell phone, click "settings" in the top right of your browser window and then click on the "devices" tab.

4. Enter your phone number as instructed (for U.S. phones, you will need to enter "+1" before your area code) and click the box that reads "It's okay for Twitter to send messages to my phone."

Twitter does not send third-party texts to your phone; you are ONLY accepting text message updates from people and groups you choose.

Users must create an account to join Twitter. Once logged in, fans have the choice of following other users, and they can activate their mobile devices to receive tweets as other users, including the Flyer Women's Basketball account, post them.

How to receive Dayton Women's Basketball Twitter updates:
1. Visit Twitter.com/DaytonWBball and click "follow" under the photo.

2. To receive updates to your cell phone, click the link that says "Device Updates OFF" and switch the button that pops up to "ON." You will now receive text messages from the women's basketball team on your phone.