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!