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Social Media & Science, Part 1:
What to Write on Twitter
Katja Reuter, PhDAssociate Director of Communications
Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI)University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
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Half a billion registered Twitter users
generate175 tweets a day, 11 tweets per second.
Data May 2012
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Tweets “Worth Reading”
36% of tweets are worth reading
39% are OK
25% are not worth reading
Ref. Quality ranking of 43,738 tweets by users www.cs.cmu.edu/~pandre/pubs/whogivesatweet-cscw2012.pdf
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Make your tweets count!
Here are 10 tips: What to do and what to avoid...
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What to Share
1. Share links: Tips, novel information, interesting facts, stats, quotes.
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2. Provide context, insights, perspective.
What to Share
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3. Invite questions from followers: Users see crowdsourcing via questions as one of Twitter’s core functions. Ref. www.cs.cmu.edu/~pandre/pubs/whogivesatweet-cscw2012.pdf
Bradley Voytek, PhD, is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of California, San Francisco.
Communities Specialist for nature.com.
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4. Ask followers to do something. (e.g., answer a question, sign a petition, see a link)
What to Share
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What to Share
5. Answer questions: Help solve problems, send supportive comments, and join the chat. Example shows inter-organizational conversation between programs.
Published via CTSI’s Early Translational Research (ETR) program.
Add-on response from CTSI Communications team.
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What to Share
6. Share random thoughts: A moment of introspection to inspire others. Tweets that are interesting, surprising, and “funny” are rated worth reading.
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What to Share
7. Dare to self-promote: Twitter users find self-promotion useful when it provides helpful information and links. (Ref. www.cs.cmu.edu/~pandre/pubs/whogivesatweet-cscw2012.pdf)
“80-20 rule”: 80 percent not self-promotional content, 20 percent self-promotion.
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What to Share
8. Promote, encourage, and support others.
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What to Share
9. Add images to your tweets: Research shows that pictures make content memorable. People have the most impact. (Ref. http://www.popphoto.com/news/2011/05/mit-study-shows-people-make-memorable-photography)
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What to Avoid
What are you doing right now? There is no need to answer this unasked question.
Puns: If readers don’t know immediately what a story is about they’re less likely to click on the link. Focus on the facts.
Opinion/complaint: Avoid it, unless the remark is especially witty and useful.
Conversation pitfalls: Avoid including personal responses in general tweets. Use direct messages for personal responses. Don’t retweet one-on-one conversations.
“Butterfly syndrome”: Focus on a topic, theme or question related to your expertise.
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CTSI is a member of the National Institutes of Health-funded Clinical and Translational Science Awards network.
Under the banner of "Accelerating Research to Improve Health," it provides a wide range of services for researchers, and promotes online collaboration and networking tools such as UCSF Profiles.
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Katja Reuter, PhDAssociate Director of Communications
Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI)University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
ctsi.ucsf.eduhttps://twitter.com/CTSIatUCSF
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