Twitter
Carol Walker
eLearning Advisor (Learning Technology)
http://twitter.com/weedog
JISC RSC Scotland North & East

Love it?
Hate it?

Type a message (tweet) into the
box above – up to a 140
characters in length. Hit
“update” and it will send your
tweet to all your followers

Why are you using it?
What do you want to achieve?

Finding People
http://search.twitter.com
Look at the
followers/following of the
people you are following
Directories such as
wefollow.com
Twitter can scan your email
contacts to find fellow
twitterers

Profile Page: http://twitter.com/yourusername
Profile Checklist: Avatar Do you want to
remain anonymous?
Name
Web
Bio

Profile Page: http://twitter.com/yourusername

Home Page: http://twitter.com/ (when logged in)

Tweet Terminology
@user Reply to user
RT ReTweet – resend information
to your followers
D or DM Send a direct message to a user
– doesn’t appear in your
timeline
# Hashtag

Library Twitterers

Twitterers
Institutions Individual users
@qmulrc @libram
@birkbecklibrary @cgroom1
@ednaplib @philbradley
Library associations Services Public libraries
@scotlibraries @intute @libr8

Desktop clients

TweetDeck desktop client: Allows you to create Groups and Filters

1
Postdate tweets
2
Add multiple
users

Accessible Twitter

3rd Party Services

http://twitter.polldaddy.com

http://twitterfeed.com

Image Attributions
Slide 1
Twitter Bird Logo
http://wefunction.com/
Slide 2
Image: 'Marmite'
www.flickr.com/photos/14425881@N03/3218881305
Slide 3
Image: 'Goalpost @ Lowestoft, Suffolk'
www.flickr.com/photos/43632116@N00/2086343139