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Marie K. ShanahanUniversity of ConnecticutOctober 2011
A Primer
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Why Twitter matters
• Twitter is fully public, unlike Facebook• Real-time reach• Influential audience, different from Facebook• Focused on niches: Lots of techies, news
junkies• Twitter drives people to traditional media• Crowdsourcing tool
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Brevity
http://www.zazzle.com/know_your_limits_twitter_140_characters_reminder_ornament-175821205964568381
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Twitter Basics• Seek to gain “followers”• @username• Retweets: RT, MT• #Hashtags• URL Shorteners • Use lists to sort topics• Follow Twitter etiquette• Twitter.com/search
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#Hashtags
• The # symbol, referred to as a hashtag within Twitter, is used to mark keywords or topics in a Tweet.
• Created organically by Twitter users as a way to categorize messages.
• # turns any word into a link.
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How Roy Peter Clark tweets…“I will quickly write out what I want to say. I write short, but not that short. I look up at the character counter which leads me to revision. I can then begin the process of cutting out every word, every letter that does not contribute to the message.” (poynter.org)
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Shorten your URLS
• bit.ly• goo.gl• tinyurl.com• ow.ly
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How To Use Twitter Daily
• Tweet! Something interesting. Something topical. Use #hashtags, give credit to source
• Check @ messages. Check to see who has publicly referenced you in their tweets and acknowledge, answer or respond.
• Check DMs. Check direct messages (DMs) to see if anyone messaged you privately.
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How To Use Twitter Daily
• Check your Twitter Timeline and Twitter Lists. See what the people you are following are saying. Seek out appropriate opportunities to retweet, respond, engage.
• Check Your Saved Searches. Topics, brand
names, keywords pertaining to your business or industry.
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Retweeting• Like an SMS message, it is acceptable to
change word spellings to make a retweet fit the character limit.
• Twitter offers a built-in retweet button, but it is not preferred. It comes across as robotic.
• Personalize retweets by adding a comment at the beginning or end.
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How To Retweet: Three Options
1.Add “RT @twittername” to the beginning of the tweet
2.Add “MT @twittername” to the start of the tweet if you make any modifications to the original words
3.Add “via @twittername” at the end of the tweet.
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Twitter Fail WhaleIf Twitter gets overloaded, expect to see the Fail Whale until the system regroups.
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Some Useful Twitter Tools
• TweetDeck• HootSuite• Followerwonk• Listorious• WeFollow• Klout• yfrog
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