Exploring the Twittersphere: A beginner’s guide!
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TwitterAn introduction to Twitter
presented by Junita Lyon & Judi Gowing
Photo courtesy of Matt Hamm Flickr CC under Attribution-Non Commercial 2.0
www.twitter.com
On arrival to this room check your audio
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Where are you?
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Using the A tool tell us how you like to Communicate
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What is Twitter?
Twitter is a free service for friends colleagues, co workers, life long learners and people wishing to share information with others.
Twitter allows for people to stay connected through an exchange of short 140 character messages called Tweets.
www.twitter.com
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http://www.tagxedo.com
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YouTube is the most amazing source of tutorials on all things important and unimportant, fun and frivolous, downright awful and sometimes quite shocking….
But we’d like you to enjoy this 4 min clip that is a Beginner’s Guide to Twitter……
http://youtu.be/-4tCn2KTLro
Then we will fill in the gaps and you can ask some knowledgeable questions.
Pen and paper …ready??? ….Go…..
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• Always make sure you are at twitter.com
• Never use your important passwords on suspicious third party sites
• Don’t be to specific in your posts about not being home
• Don’t tweet about excessive personal
information
• Never tweet about moving servers or passwords
Always pick a secure password don’t use the same password you would for your banking or pay pal
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Setting up an AccountLog in to www.twitter.com
Think about the username you will use …. It needs to be all one word & only letters, numbers and the underscore _ symbol are able to be used in your username.
Sign up for Twitter
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Do You Have a twitter username or handle? Some interesting & influential people Tweet…check out their usernames and add others that you know about in the Chat box…Stephen Fry- @stephenfryStephanie Rice - @ItsStephRiceLibby Trickett - @Libby_TrickettJulia Gillard - @JuliaGillardKevin Rudd - @KRuddMPAdam Hills -@adamhillsTony Abbott - @TonyAbbottMHRSydney Swans - @sydneyswansHawthorn Football Club - @HawthornFCABC Radio 702 - @702sydney
And then there is us!!!!!Judi Gowing - @judimgJunita Lyon - @junita55
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Lets have a pollWhat #Hashtag do you like for Broadband for Seniors
ABC
Hashtags
By adding the '#' sign before a string of text, users make that stream of conversation easy to find in a search.
#broadbandfs
#bfseniors
#bfskiosk
D #alabfs
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Reply Retweet
Favourite
Trending
counter
Reply
Instant Follows
Compose a
Tweet
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Navigating
Access your direct messages
ListsHelp
Keyboard shortcutsSettings Sign out
Profile page where you can
edit your profile View your tweets
Instant followSee what's trending
Read your TweetsTweet
Instant followsTrending
Search for friends
@connect see who has
mentioned you# Discover find
tweets of interest
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Our Twitter streams…..
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Avatar creators are freely available on the Web or as Apps on your ‘smart’ device.
WeeMee- iPhone & iPad + AndroidWebFace
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Hoot Suite and Tweet deck
Shrink your Url
Links add photos
Movies and files
Manage Conversation
s
Send your message to
your favourite
social media Sites at the same
time
Access all your social networks instantly
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