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What is Twitter?“You say what you’re doing, in 140 characters or less, and people who are interested in you get those updates… Twitter lets people share moments of their lives… momentous occasions or mundane ones.” Evan Williams, Co-founder of TwitterThink micro-blogging

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What is micro-blogging?

Vladimir: What are you waiting for? Estragon: I’m waiting for Godot.

[with apologies to Beckett]

Romeo: Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this?

Juliet: What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet[with apologies to Shakespeare]

Brief messages [140 characters or less for Twitter] from one user to another or from one user to a group of users

- Real-time- Quick- Simple

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Getting StartedUsername – the username becomes your Twitter URL

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Profile Settings

Account – update basic account information

Password – option to change password Devices – using your mobile device for

Twitter Notices – updates, emails, newsletters Picture – profile picture Design – themes, background image, color Connections – applications that connect to

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Protect my updates – Privacy setting that restricts your updates to show up on people you follow and not on the public timeline

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Twitter-speak

Tweet – A message on Twitter

Follow – When you subscribe to messages from another individual, you follow the person on Twitter

Followers – Individuals who subscribe to your tweets

@Reply – Public message sent from one individual to another

DM – Direct message from one individual to another

RT – Retweet [or re-send] a message that an individual has posted on Twitter

Hashtag – Allows a tweet to be easily searched and located

Tweeple– Twitter users, Twitter membersTwitosphere– Community of Twitterers

Twitterspeak: 66 Twitter TermsPete Cashmore

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How to Follow

Individuals you know who use Twitter Individuals you would like to follow

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Search and Trending Topics

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Twitter Applications

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