1. USING TWITTER
An introduction
Benoît Guilbaud
@benguilbaud
www.benguilbaud.com
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3. WHAT IS TWITTER?
Community
Conversation
Participation
Adapted from Anthony Mayfield, http://connect.icrossing.co.uk
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4. COMMUNITY
Find people with similar interests
Broaden your personal network
Discover something new
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5. CONVERSATION
Two-way interactions
Share resources with others
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6. PARTICIPATION
Not broadcast only
Blurs the line between media and audience
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21. Shorten URLs to fit
Integrated analytics
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22. RESOURCES
Creative Commons
A Twitter guide by LSE - Impact of Social Sciences
iCrossing Digital Marketing - Anthony Mayfield
What the *Tweet*? Social Media for Grad Students - M. Fullick
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24. Useful Twitter terminology
Term Definition
tweets will appear in your feed.
Follow Following another user means that all their
appear on the right of your
Click on their user name, and their profile will
t click this to follow.
screen, with a bright green Follow button. Jus
ple or organizations that you
Who to follow This is a list of Twitter’s suggestions of peo
ilarity with your profile. Scroll
list might want to follow, based on points of sim
ton next to anyone you want to.
down the list and click the green Follow but
to your following list and find
Unfollow To stop seeing someone else’s tweets, go
hover the cursor over the green
the person you want to stop following and
Unfollow button, then click.
Following button until it is replaced by the red
avoury character may appear in
Block From time to time a spammer or other uns
ulders icon next to the unwanted
your Followers list. Click the head and sho
e]’ option appears – click this
follower’s name so that the ‘Block [their nam
ers list.
and they will be removed from your Follow
it’s a good idea to click also
For any form of spammer or malware user
t their capacity to annoy others.
‘Repor t [their name] for spam’ so as to limi
ers’ list regularly. Twitter shows
You should look at and weed out your ‘Follow
the new followers at the top of the list.
e seen in your feed, hover
Ret weet or RT To share somebody else’s tweet that you hav
all your followers, with a small
above it and select retweet. It then goes to
n’t originally your tweet.
arrow icon, which shows others that this was
over it and select the Reply
Reply To respond to somebody else’s tweet, hover
ions column. They may also
option, which will then appear in their @Ment
mn.
reply to you, so check your @Mentions colu
another user. Also the first par t of
@ Used in tweets when you want to mention
SEimpactblog
every Twitter user name – for example @L
n others have mentioned you.
Mentions Check your @Mentions column to see whe
r topics are referred to as
# Hashtag – used to categorize tweets. Popula
ied by hashtags, such as
trending topics and are sometimes accompan
them listed on the home page
#london2012 #davidwilletts. Click on any of
many different users. Including
and you’ll see a list of related tweets from
a tweet may attract more
popular hashtags that are already in use in
attention.
nel’ communication around
Hashtags are also used as par t of ‘backchan
e or a global event. An event
an event, be it a conference, a TV programm
and links with each other while
audience can share comments, questions
continuing to follow the formal presentation.
send to other Twitter users. Click
Direct Message These are private messages that you can
page.
or DM the Message menu at the top of the home
long and clumsy, free URL
Shortened Given that a typical web address is rather
url.com provide shorter links
URLs shortening sites such as bitly.com and tiny
y the web address of the page
which you can paste into tweets. Simply cop
on either site, and you will be
that you’d like to share, paste it into the box
y who clicks on it back to the
given a short link which will re-direct anybod
original page you want to share.
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25. TWEET YOUR EXPERIENCE
Tweet about what you’ve learnt today
Don’t forget to include the session hashtag:
#twitterMMU
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26. THANK YOU
#twitterMMU
Benoît Guilbaud
@eljeejavier & @benguilbaud www.benguilbaud.com
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