Twitter and Intute
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1. The document discusses Twitter and provides an overview of what Twitter is and why someone might use it. 2. Twitter allows users to post short messages of up to 140 characters that are shared online with others. 3. The document recommends ways for organizations like Intute to use Twitter, such as retweeting links, monitoring discussions, and providing updates through active or passive Twitter accounts.
Twitter and Intute
- 1. Twitter in Twenty Twinutes Paul Ayres Intute: Social Sciences intute .ac. uk / socialsciences
- 2. Who is this man? Online Information Specialist … … covering economics, education and learning technology
- 3. What we will cover today What is Twitter? Why use Twitter? Intute use of Twitter Keys to Twitter success
- 4. Let’s Twitter Stand up, pair up, don’t talk Show us your fingers 20 words on What you had for dinner last night Seen a good website recently Last thing that got you excited … or anything else
- 5. Twitter is … … a lot like talking … so what’s the point of Twitter? … well what’s the point of talking?
- 6. What’s Twitter? Short messages (140 characters) shared online What are you doing? What has your attention? What do you care about? Sent from a web browser, mobile phone or a Twitter app
- 8. Twitter-isms Following / followers (opt-in) @username for replies Re-Tweet RT Direct Messages DM TinyURL .com to shorten links
- 9. Twitter is … … a bus full of crazy people talking to themselves, except you get to choose who is on the bus! … from Twitter is like
- 10. Twitter is … … a fantastic collection of real peoples thoughts and problems - unlike the media which is full of media people's thoughts and problems - that is Twitter's USP - We can now do media without the media - and you lot don't get it! … comment from Guido Fawkes’ blog
- 11. Why use Twitter?
- 12. Why use Twitter?
- 13. Why use Twitter?
- 14. Why use Twitter?
- 15. Intute use of Twitter Find out about new websites Discover and pass on subject specific news Develop new contacts Pass on knowledge by answering questions Get to know existing friends much better Help spread the word about all things Intute Monitoring what people say about us
- 19. Provide support to users
- 22. Active Twittering A real person provides updates Become a trusted guide on a subject Approach undertaken by the Intute: Psychology channel http://twitter.com/ IntutePsychUK
- 24. Passive Twittering Re-purpose some of your existing content by sending it to Twitter Automatically update a channel with news, blog posts or other updates Approach undertaken by the Intute: Economics channel http://twitter.com/ intuteeconomics
- 29. Keys to Twitter success API and open data approach makes it easy to build on Twitter Real time news and search engine Does one thing, but does it well Opt-in model of followers / following
- 34. What you can do … Sign up for a personal account at Twitter today Set up a project account and send items to it using Twitterfeed Monitor what’s being said about you using Twitter Search See more Twitter related links at delicious.com/ cfbloke /twitter
- 35. Become one of these people
- 36. Thanks for listening Paul Ayres http://twitter.com/cfbloke Intute: Economics http://twitter.com/intuteeconomics Intute: Social Sciences http://www.intute.ac.uk/socialsciences/