Twitter Basics
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Twitter : For Beginners
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What is Twitter?
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What is Twitter?
• Twitter is not just about people telling other people what they had for breakfast
• But it can be if you want
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What is Twitter?
• Being on Twitter doesn’t mean you’ll automatically be friends with celebrities
• But you can try
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What is Twitter?
• Twitter isn’t going to take up all of your time
• But it might if you let it
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What is Twitter?
• Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other users' updates known as tweets (Wikipedia 26/03/08)
What is Twitter?
• Like other Social Media tools (facebook, youtube, blogs) twitter works two ways
1. You can view content created by others
2. You can create content for others to view
• On Twitter this ‘content’ is made up of 140 character tweets (vitally these characters can provide links to images, video, and WebPages)
• Like other Social Media tools you can just use it one way, but it works best if you do both
What is Twitter?
• So…
• Twitter is a service or a tool
• It’s up to you what you do with it
• What is actually possible is dependent on the users of the service
What can I do with Twitter?
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What can I do with Twitter?
• Get the Latest News
• Don’t wait for journalists to write up the story, get the latest from the people at the scene as it happens
• News of the Mumbai terrorist attacks, and the US Airways Plane landing on the Hudson River, both appeared on Twitter before anywhere else
• Network at the conference and beyond
• Looking for people or particular info? Post a question.
• Find an interesting site, video, resource? Share the link with the rest of us.
• Snap a pic or record a video of your team, an idea, something fun and share.
• Share an idea.
What can I do with Twitter?
Follow tweets at twubs.com/11aascd
What can I do with Twitter?
• Get Information
• Follow people who share the information you need
e.g. follow people in Digital and get a constant stream of the information relevant to you
• Of course you could look for it all yourself, but why waste hours searching when there are thousands of people doing it for you?
What can I do with Twitter?
• Get more specific Information
• Use twitter search to find tweets on the specific topic you want
e.g. Search: augmented reality
What can I do with Twitter?
• Get Even more specific Information
• Ask the people of twitter a question
How do I get started?
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How do I get started?
• Simple, just go to www.twitter.com
• Pick a username
• Fill out the info so people know what to expect from your tweets
• Now you have a Twitter account
How do I get started?
• Join the conversations at convention
• Go to
http://twubs.com/
11aascd.
• Log in using
your Twitter
account.
How do I get started?
• Join the conversations at convention
• Type a tweet
(your message)
in the box, and
click “Send
Tweet.”
• Your message
will display with
other tweets
below the box.
How to use the features
• That’s the basics.
• But, to really interact with Twitter you need to learn a few more things
How to use the features
• Reply to Tweets
• You can reply to any tweet you see on Twitter, just click on the reply arrow located bottom right of their tweet
• Your reply is public and identified by having ‘@username’ at the beginning on the tweet
• If you don’t want it to be public you can send the user a Direct message
How to use the features
• Re-tweet
• See a tweet you like, then you might want to tweet it yourself
• This is called re-tweeting, and convention is to credit the user by starting your tweet with ‘RT@username’
How to use the features
• You can see any replies to your tweets in the @Replies section
• If you want to see if anyone has Re-tweeted any of your tweets you need to search ‘@yourusername’ in Twitter Search
• Watch a slideshow: http://www.onlinecolleges.net/2009/09/22/50-terrific-twitter-tutorials-for-teachers/
• Check out 50 Twitter Tutorials for Teachers
Want to learn about using Twitter in the classroom?
Start Tweeting!