Twitter training for the World Development Movement

Twitter!Pontus Westerberg, WDM Web Officer

What is Twitter?

But also…

Some numbers

1 billion tweets sent every week

300 million total accounts

155 tweets sent every day

50 million active users

1.5 million accounts following more than 500 people

460,000 new accounts every day

So how do you use it?

Followother users to see their tweets

See their tweets in your feed

@mentionother users to have conversations

.@mentionif you want everyone to see it

Retweet (RT) anything interesting

Direct messages (DM) are for private conversations

Hashtags group tweets

Share interesting

links

Organise people into

lists

So how do we campaign with it?

#radicalmediafail

Amnesty campaign

@BPglobalPR

Kagame vs. Ian Birrell

Other great things!

Speak directly with our supporters

Become an ‘expert’ in your field

Meet great people (yes in real life too)

Be the first to find out about news

Share your content

Learn new things

Get your questions answered

Protests#chisinau

#iranelection

#demo2010

#dayx

#ukuncut

#jan25

#syria

#acampadasol

#syntagma

How do you get started?

1. Setup your account

2. Find at least 50 interesting people or orgs to follow

3. Spend at least 30 minutes a day on Twitter for 10 days

4. Dowload an app on your phone

5. Get Tweetdeck

6. Don’t forget to tweet

How do you get started?

Twitter is not like Facebook.

Don’t just follow your friends or people you already know.

Follow people with similar interests.

You can follow whoever you like.

Some accounts I follow@nick_dearden75

@jonathanglennie

@nishmadoshi

@jazcummins

@georgemonbiot

@falseecon

@ukuncut

@pennyred

@paullewis

@brghtgreen

@gdndevelopment

@geecologist

@stevebridger

@paulakuhumbu

@johannhari101

@naomiaklein

@chakrabortty

@libcon

@paulmasonnews

@danmcquillan

@shrikydinky

@ethanz

@hackofalltrades

@meowtree

@adamramsay

@timdavies

@kevincurley

@kanter

Just dive in!

Twitter training for the World Development Movement

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