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Transcript of Twitter Tutorial Everything you should know about Twitter before you Tweet...
Reasons to use Twitter
Individual Reasons
To connect with people
To record things (and we are not talking about what you had for lunch = earthquakes)
To share information (Sean Fitzroy)
To stay in touch with your “tribe”
Uses for Twitter
Organizational Use
To communicate (to your tribe)
To promote
To respond
To seek out
To organize
To network
To give a status or answer common questions
To fine-tune an image
To poll or seek feedback
Politics!
US Democratic Congressional Campaign = (dcc)
US Republican Congressional Campaign = (nrcc)
US President Obama = (barackobama)
CA Governor Schwarzenegger = (schwarzenegger)
PM Gordon Brown = (downingstreet)
Former VP Al Gore = (algore)
The White House = (whitehouse)
“what are you doing?”
Definitions =
Tweet
Retweet
bit.ly
Direct Message
Search on Twitter
Griff_Graff - funding “Twitter-voice” (Stephanie Miller, WBZ)
“Perhaps one of the coolest things about Twitter is that the more you use it, the easier it gets to write short, sharp, clear tweets...squeezing thoughts into 140 characters often makes you refine the point in ways you never would have thought of...” (Twitter for Dummies)
Different things you can do with Twitter that you couldn’t imagine
track expenses
request restaurant reviews
follow gas prices
follow traffic patterns
follow police calls
read or follow a news item
keep track of the H1N1 flu in your backyard
find out if it’s going to rain
help people suffering from a disaster
fundraising
Fine-tuning your Twitter
identityPicking a name?
This is really important --- no it’s monumental! This is NOT like email. The best thing, if you can do it, is to use your name or some form of your name, unless
you are a business.Lean towards understandable, short, no
extraneous markings (! - +_^*).
Things to remember
Don’t follow alot of people at the beginning, I’ll go into details later.
Follow everyone in the class and any specific e-business that interests you.
Be genuine! (Non-deceptive)
Provide value to your followers
Know that you can “influence”
Do the best that you can with your profile, please treat it seriously.
Create a GREAT avatar!
Avatar / Background
Avatar specifics
700 kb limit
73x73 pixels
jpg .gif .png
Background specifics
You’re on your own, but please make it nice!
Warnings!
If you are texting from your phone...what type of text-message plan do you have?
Be careful what you tweet...it’s there forever...even if you delete it
What are you doing? 140