intro to twitter use by ESA TN

1. Basics on
how to use
Twitter
(a really short intro)
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Twitter is referred to as the SMS of the Internet because of its
unmatched popularity and similarity to the SMS used on cellphones
(www.techopedia.com)
- an extreme power to spread information:
•7,628 short messages (“tweets”) per second (http://www.internetlivestats.com/one-
second/#tweets-band)
•over 313 million active users each month (https://about.twitter.com/company )

3. Creating a Twitter account
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https://twitter.com/signup
Follow the instructions!
• Go to:

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• And what you are interested in
• Choose an username
Creating a Twitter account

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• Find who you want to follow and import contacts (optional)
Creating a Twitter account

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• Choose who you want to follow (Twitter offers profiles base on what interests you selected in
previous steps)
Creating a Twitter account

7. • For managing your profile, click the avatar,
and choose from the menu
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8. • You can upload profile and/or header photo
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9. • You can add some facts about yourself...
• ...which will later appear beneath your profile name
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• For changing your settings and privacy, choose from the menu

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Congratulations!
Your Twitter profile is now ready
to use!

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What can you do from your
Twitter profile?
• Tweet
• Follow someone
• Mention someone
• Retweet someone else’s tweet
• Favore (like) someone else’s tweet
• Reply to someone else’s tweet
• Send a personal message

13. Tweeting
• „Tweet” – a short messages containing 140 characters
• limited number of characters urges the use of many abbreviations, e.g.
http://www.webopedia.com/quick_ref/Twitter_Dictionary_Guide.asp#a
• https://blog.bufferapp.com/social-media-acronyms-abbreviations
• http://stylecaster.com/social-media-acronyms-abbreviations-what-they-mean/
• https://sproutsocial.com/insights/social-media-acronyms/

14. Tweeting
• # - ‘pound/hash’ – symbol used with words/phrases that identifyes a
specific topic „to hashtag a topic”, e.g.
#ESATraineeN (official # for ESA Trainee Network),
#ESAGeneva (official # for ESA Congress in Geneva)
#anaesthesia, #trainee,....
• @ - „mention” – used with names of Twitter accounts to address
someone, e.g. @ESATraineeN (official @ for ESA Trainee Network)
@ESA_HQ (official @ for ESA)
• you can embed a link in your tweet, or...
• attach a photo or a video

15. Tweeting
• Click „Tweet”
• Compose a tweet
• Click „Tweet” to post it

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Tweeting
• Your tweet

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Tweeting
• search Twitter for people/organisations you wish to follow
• click on their profile
• click on „Follow”

18. Retweeting - RT
• Retweet someone else’s tweet to share it with yoour followers
• by clicking „Retweet” -
• by including „RT” and @ of a profile whose tweet you wish to retweet
or

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Favoring
• by clicking „Like” -
• Favore (like) someone else’s tweet
• Reply to someone else’s tweet
Replying
• by clicking „Like” -

20. Personal message
• click „Messages” icon
• choose the recipient
• and type your message

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• You can tweet from your mobile phone by downloading the Twitter app!
https://twitter.com/download?logged_out=1&lang=en

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ESA Geneva Congress
• if tweeting form the Congress, please, tweet using both # - #ESAGeneva and #ESATraineeN,
to label your tweet with the Congress’s # (former), and to identifiy yourself as anaesthesia
trainee (latter)
• if using Twitter, please, follow @ESATraineeN