Using Twitter - An Introduction
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The document provides an introduction to using Twitter. It discusses that Twitter allows users to share short messages called tweets that are limited to 140 characters and can include links. It also discusses how Twitter allows users to build a personalized feed by following other users and sources. Finally, it suggests that Twitter can be a useful resource for research, teaching and impact activities in academia, despite its brevity, by allowing sharing of resources and conversations.
![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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Using Twitter - An Introduction
- 1. USING TWITTER An introduction Benoît Guilbaud @benguilbaud www.benguilbaud.com Saturday, 21 April 12
- 2. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/ 3.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons 444 Castro Street, Suite 900, Mountain View, California, 94041, USA. @eljeejavier & @benguilbaud Saturday, 21 April 12
- 3. WHAT IS TWITTER? Community Conversation Participation Adapted from Anthony Mayfield, http://connect.icrossing.co.uk Saturday, 21 April 12
- 4. COMMUNITY Find people with similar interests Broaden your personal network Discover something new Saturday, 21 April 12
- 5. CONVERSATION Two-way interactions Share resources with others Saturday, 21 April 12
- 6. PARTICIPATION Not broadcast only Blurs the line between media and audience Saturday, 21 April 12
- 7. Saturday, 21 April 12
- 8. Saturday, 21 April 12
- 9. USING TWITTER Saturday, 21 April 12
- 10. @ MENTIONS Exchange @usernames with someone Compose a new tweet and mention them Saturday, 21 April 12
- 11. FOLLOW Click on a person’s @username Follow them Saturday, 21 April 12
- 12. #HASHTAGS Compose a new tweet Add the session hashtag #twitterMMU Add this to all your tweets for this session Saturday, 21 April 12
- 13. SEARCH Create & save a search for #twitterMMU Follow everyone using the session hashtag Saturday, 21 April 12
- 14. WHO TO FOLLOW Look at the tweet suggesting people to follow Follow people & institutions you like #ff Saturday, 21 April 12
- 15. RETWEET Choose a tweet you find interesting Retweet it You may also ‘quote’ the tweet (and add a comment, hashtag, etc.) Saturday, 21 April 12
- 16. FAVOURITE Find the tweet with a link to the session slides Favourite it Retrieve it later from your profile Saturday, 21 April 12
- 17. TOOLS Saturday, 21 April 12
- 18. TWITTER CLIENTS Official Tweetdeck Twitter apps OS X, iOS, Android, Windows, OS X, Linux, BlackBerry iOS, Android, BlackBerry Saturday, 21 April 12
- 19. TWITTER TOOLS Buffer bit.ly Saturday, 21 April 12
- 20. Tweet automatically Schedule tweets Multiple accounts Saturday, 21 April 12
- 21. Shorten URLs to fit Integrated analytics Saturday, 21 April 12
- 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 Saturday, 21 April 12
- 23. Impact of Social Sciences Maximizing the impact of academic research Using Twitter in university research, teaching and impact activities A guide for academics and researchers nle avy Amy Mollett, Danielle Moran and Patrick Du public ch allows users to send and receive short Twitter is a form of free micro-blogging whi ude no more than 140 characters, and can incl me ssages called tweets. Tweets are limited to er material online. You can start tweeting in links to blogs, web pages, images, videos and all oth art phone or tablet. 10 minutes, anytime, from your computer, sm are able to build up an instant, personalized By following other people and sources you of ts, both academic and personal. Thousands Twi tter feed that meets your full range of interes and across all disciplines already use academics and researchers at all levels of experience other users. Twitter daily, alongside more than 200 million vance to universities and academia, where Yet how can such a brief medium have any rele where books contain 80,000 words? Can journa l articles are 3,000 to 8,000 words long, and just 140 characters? anything of academic value ever be said in wing you g you how to get started on Twitter and sho This guide answers these questions, showin ch, teaching and impact activities. how Twitter can be used as a resource for resear © LSE Public Policy Group 2011 1 Saturday, 21 April 12
- 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. 3 Saturday, 21 April 12
- 25. TWEET YOUR EXPERIENCE Tweet about what you’ve learnt today Don’t forget to include the session hashtag: #twitterMMU Saturday, 21 April 12
- 26. THANK YOU #twitterMMU Benoît Guilbaud @eljeejavier & @benguilbaud www.benguilbaud.com Saturday, 21 April 12