Pub Camp Sydney

Twitter What is is and why does it matter? Social networks and beyond Alison Young

The Basic Idea
140 characters
What are you doing?
People you Follow
People who Follow you
Twitter in Plain English - video

How we Twitter
Website- http://www.twitter.com
Instant Messaging- GoogleTalk, Pidgin
Clients- Twhirl, Snitter, OutTwit, TwitterFox
Mobiles- sms, m.twitter.com, Twittai

4 Stages of Twitter
so my friends keep talking about this Twitter thing, I guess I'll check it out
this is stupid, I don't get it, I can't of anything to write
I'm finally getting it, holy crap people are following me!!
I'm in traction, yet I must Twitter!!

What's the point
Communicate
Meet people
Find a job/pimp jobs
Seek assistance/advice
Randomly abuse
e-Flirting
Bots
Notifications- blogs, Flickr, Seesmic

Hints for Max Fun
Don't feel compelled to follow EVERYBODY that follows you...
Participate in the discussion
Check out who your friends are talking to
Learn to not care about what happens while you're not there
Use an aggregator to get all the tweets where you're mentioned. Tweetscan, Terraminds.

How not to Twitter
Just for @Mediamum PennyArcade 23 rd April 2008

Who are you freaks?
find and follow the folks with the @'s in front of their names if you don't already
come along and meet fellow 'tweeps' face-to-face at various @STUB meets
miniSTUBs
monthly STUB meets
interest groups pimped via Twitter
ask around to find out about groups in your area.

Shameless self-promotion
I'm @Alegrya – if I'm amusing to you then follow me
Props to @jedwhite @jodiem @funkycoda @kcarruthers @trib @eskimo_sparky @SilkCharm @NickHodge @flungabunga @dekrazee1 @dizzystuff @Mediamum @gregdwyer @jdub
sorry if I missed anybody here....

When Twitter fails

Plenty of Social Networks
FriendFeed
BrightKite
Plurk
Jaiku
Seesmic What are your social networks?

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by Alison Young on Jul 09, 2008

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