Why Tweet? Learn How Twitter Can Help YOU!

Presenters: Jaleh Fazelian, Islamic and Near Eastern Studies LibrarianBrian Marston, Library Web Services Developer #whytweet

Twitter: A Bit of History

Jack Dorsey◦St. Louis native◦@jack

SXSW 2007

What is Twitter?

Free social networking and micro-blogging service for sending and reading 140-character messages

Real-time communications mediumTwitter is what you make it

Growth of Twitter

Twitter Jargon

TweetFollowerMention:

@usernameDirect Message:

d usernameRetweet:

RT @username#tagbit.lyLists

Twitter for Current Awareness

Twitter is a primary source document#IranelectionTrending TopicsSearching

Microblogging

Examples: @mcleod, @kinggaryWhy microblog?How to become a tweeter of note

Teaching with Twitter

Twitter Etiquette◦Privacy◦Query◦Frequency◦Be prepared to be kind and to have unkind

things said about you

Teaching with Twitter

Creating a community◦Create a hashtag for your class

(#WUSTLANTH4243)◦Continue classroom chatter◦Create multiple accounts

Scholarly Community

Teaching with Twitter

Assignment Ideas◦Summarize◦Word usage◦Public Timeline and Trending Topics◦Follow a Professional◦Recreate history (http://twhistory.org/)

Questions? Comments?

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