what is twitter and why should you use it?

“There’s a hot new trend

sweeping the nation…”

What is Twitter and why should I

use it?

Isn’t it…?“(The name tells us straightaway): it's inconsequential, background noise, a waste of time and space.”

“The online phenomenon is about humanity disappearing up its own fundament, or the air leaking out of the whole Enlightenment project.

“In short, I feel about Twitter the way some people feel about nuclear weapons: it's wrong. It makes blogging look like literature. It's anti-literature, the new opium of the masses.”

Twitter for personal use

Twitter for professional use1. Telling people what you have done, are

doing or will be doing…

2. Contact building and networking…

3. Exchanging links and information…

4. Passing on links and information that you find interesting…

5. Help me! Please…

6. I’ll help you too. Promise.

7. Promoting your blog

8. As a personal news wire (and even more focussed with Twitter lists)

9. Monitoring (breaking) news

Don’t Tweet…

I know just what you are saying…

“Do I wanna go Hull City NO.

Do I wanna go stoke NO do I

wanna go sunderland YES so stop

f****** around levy.”

So please stop explaining…

“Robin Hood airport is

closed," he wrote.

"You've got a week and a

bit to get your shit together, otherwise I'm

blowing the airport sky

high!!"

Don’t tell me ‘cause it hurts…

“CARELESS tweets cost lives. Some

military personnel are

being disciplined

after leaking secrets on

Twitter and Facebook…

Three approaches:

1. ‘Official’ feed:

2. Personal

3. Somewhere in between