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TWITTER: To Tweet or Not to Tweet… By Catherine L. Dumas IST 561 SUNY Albany 11/10/2010

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This is a short presentation I did for my class IST 561 Internet and Information Access @SUNY Albany. I was talking to a room of graduate students (Information Science). Not one of which uses Twitter. My goal was to introduce the utility of Twitter in Academia and Librarianship. Thanks to Max Wilson and Joe Murphy for being my exemplar examples.

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TWITTER:To Tweet or Not

to Tweet…By Catherine L. Dumas

IST 561 SUNY Albany 11/10/2010

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WHAT IS TWITTER? Social networking and micro-blogging service Founded by Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone & Evan

Williams in March 2006 (launched publicly in July 2006)

o Allows users to post their latest updates - limited by 140 characters

Updates are posted through web form, text

message, or instant message. Over 190 billion visitors monthly - FB 500 million

active users  Twitter: "a short burst of inconsequential

information," & "chirps from birds." Jack Dorsey

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TERMINOLOGY Following: you follow people you are

interested in Tweet: an individual message @username: start a message with this -

link to the person you want to tweet to DM, or direct message: Private tweets no

one else can read but you RT, or retweet: share cool ideas, shout-out

to people you respect Trending Topics: Most mentioned terms on

Twitter at that moment – break news ahead of mainstream media

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Hashtag (#): fields created by users to categorize messages (eg #ASIST2010) – ALA -hashtags

Tweetup: in-person gathering organized via Twitter – spontaneous

Shortened URLs: Twitter automatically shortens long URL’s - so they fit

Yeah, so how does Twitter work?

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o Twitter in Plain English

@Cathy2cool

Tweetdeck

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CATHY2COOL’S “TWEETDECK”

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WHAT DO PEOPLE TWEET?

Content of Tweets according toPear Analytics

■ News■ Spam■ Self-promotion■ Pointless babble■ Conversational■ Pass-along value

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Dr. MAX WILSON, Prof, Swansea Univ. UK TWITTER IN ACADEMIA

o Why Max Tweets

o “To engage with my international research community” “To bounce ideas, or things that are too small to blog

about yet” “To share new publications of mine, as they get

accepted” “To keep up with buzzes in my research areas

Max’s Advice for New Tweeter’s

Start seeing who the major peeps in your research area are tweeting, see what they are tweeting about

Start responding to them with intelligent comments/questions

Start tweeting intelligent, research oriented things yourself and hopefully have them comment on you.

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THE INNOVATIVE LIBRARIAN I MET AT ALA THIS SUMMER, WHO GOT ME

INTERESTED IN TWITTER

Joe Murphy, Science Librarian, Yale

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So, to Tweet or Not to Tweet?

Are there any other questions?

The End

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REFERENCES

http://commoncraft.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddO9idmax0o

http://business.twitter.com/twitter101/learning

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Content_of_Tweets.svg

http://twitter.com/gingdottwit http://twitter.com/@cathy2cool http://joemurphylibraryfuture.com/326/