Post on 26-May-2020
Alternative Metrics:
what’s all the Tweet about?Anthony Stevens
Manager Academic Library Services
All images used in this presentation are in the Public Domain, unless attributed
Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘The Birds’ [poster]; 1963, Copyright Universal Pictures. Viewed 10/5/2017 at
http://collider.com/the-birds-remake-lands-director-diederik-van-rooijen/
Goals &
Own Resources
Environment
Available Tools& Services
Research
Outputs
Repository
UniSA staff
homepage
ORCID Goals & Own
Resources
Environment
Available Tools &
Services
What’s my budget?
Keep up-to-dateTime
Digital skills
Attract funding
Find collaborators
Gain employment/
promotion
Increase ‘impact’
Reach
• researchers
• professionals
• policy makers
• industry
Goals & Own
Resources
Environment
Available Tools &
Services
Goals & Own
Resources
Environment
Available Tools &
Services
Morell, V & Laman, T; (2010); “Build It and They Will Come: Bowerbirds”;
National Geographic Magazine; July 2010, p. 88.
The
Conversation
Blogging
Australian
Policy Online
Butler, S 2009, Macquarie dictionary, 5th edn, Macquarie Dictionary Publishers, Sydney, p. 188.
Online ‘micro-blogging’ service which allows
users to “tweet”: Post a short message of 140
characters or less
Twitter: “to utter a succession of small tremulous
sounds, as a bird”… “a state of tremulous
excitement”.
Twitter Usage: Company Facts; 2016; Viewed 15/05/2017 at: https://about.twitter.com/company
313M Active
Monthly Users
1B/monthUnique visits
to sites w. embedded
Tweets
40+ Languages supported
82% Active
users on mobile
All numbers
approx. at 30/6/16
79%
Accounts outside of the U.S.
Hashtags
• Use # before a keyword/phrase in
your tweet (EG: #bodyinmind)
• Do NOT add spaces or
punctuation to a hashtagged word
• Aim for 1 or 2 hashtags per tweet
• Click a Hashtag to see other
tweets using that tag
Translation
• Look for a globe icon located in
the tweet
• Click the tweet to expand and see a translation below the original
Paid promotion
service
Best times to Tweet: Mon - Fri 12, 3, 5 or
6pm
Prioritises formats you like
Popular content
promoted
“In case you
missed it”
Pushes content
from your location
@SansomIst
Why?
• Demonstrate the influence of research
• Increase Altmetrics
• Showcase Sansom Institute of Health research
How?
• Join twitter
• Follow @SansomInst
• Tweet and retweet!
Library-Health-Team
@unisa.edu.au
Happy
Tweeting!