Twitter TutorialTwitter TutorialEverything you should know aboutTwitter 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

Who’s Using Twitter?

Zappos

Jet Blue

Comcast(cares)

Dell

Network Solutions

Seventh Generation

H&R Block

Little,Brown & Company

Yale Press

Seat Guru

Heavenly Ski Resort

Valley-yoga

Mandalay Bay Resort

MGM Grand Hotel