Taste of Twitter

by Park Library School of Journalism and Mass Communication @ UNC on May 20, 2010

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Back by popular demand! The first 30 minutes of this session will cover the basics of using Twitter, while the last hour will be a broad discussion of how we can use Twitter for communication.

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Taste of Twitter — Presentation Transcript

A Taste of
Stephanie Willen Brown
JoMC Librarian
swbrown@unc.edu … 919.843.8300
http://www.twitter.com/JoMCParkLib

“Twitter in Plain English”
http://www.commoncraft.com/Twitter

You & Twitter
Personal account: public or private?
Public … (http://twitter.com/JoMCParkLib)
Private (no one sees but your followers)
Professional account
Should be public
Blend
Be careful: your data will be in the Twitterverseforever
Saved by the Library of Congress!

Twitter Conventions

@JoMCParkLib @ is a reply from someone else to the jomcparklib account

RT @AnnCurry RT means “re-tweeting” a tweet from Ann Curry (user @AnnCurry)
#iranelection # is a “hashtag” to note a comment in an ongoing conversation

What Does it Look Like?

Trending … Hashtags

Twitter Lists

Shortening URLs
http://tinyurl.com/393zy3b
http://bit.ly/cXLDEa
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/06/how-to-save-the-news/8095/

Twitter Applications
Tweetie
TweetDeck

HootSuite: Schedule Tweets in Advance; Send from Multiple Accounts
HootSuite.com

More?
All links are on the JoMCParkLib blog at http://jomcparklib.blogspot.com/
Presentation on Slideshare at http://www.slideshare.net/JoMCParkLib/

Taste of Twitter

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