What are you doing now?The Twitterfication of the Web

What are you doing now?The Twitterfication of the Web
Michael Sauers&Christa Burns
Nebraska Library Commission

What is microblogging?
The act of blogging that is:
Short
Fast
Easy
Mobile

Enter Twitter
Answer the question “What are you doing now?” in 140 characters or less
Follow friends
Be followed
Like IM but asynchronous
No “status”, others don’t know if your paying attention

Create an account

Set up posting options

Design your home page

Post
A post: “Tweet”
Creating a post: “Tweeting”
Methods
via the Web (twitter.com)
via a client (Twhirl)
via a bookmarklet (TwitThis)
via e-mail
via SMS (40404)
Blog-to-Twitter (twitterfeed)
URL’s that extend past the 140 character limit are automatically turned into TinyURLs

Twitter.com

Twhirl

Twitter Vista Gadget

TwitThis

EmailTwitter.com

twitterfeed

Twitter commands
@username
d usernamemessage
nudge username
l: location information
follow username
leave username
block username
invite phonenumber
#hashtag

Direct messages

Add friends

Follow your friends
Read your friends’ tweets via your Twitter homepage
Read via a client
Subscribe via RSS
Receive via IM
Receive tweets via SMS
Graphical
TwittervisionTwitter/Google Maps mashup

Uses
Ultra simple blogging
Conferences
Reference Questions
News
Traffic
Weather
Presidential Campaigning
Web site updates
Conversations
Humor
Characters

aadl

NLC Reference

BBC News

Oregon Traffic

Boston Weather

Barack Obama

“Darth Vader”

A Twitterconversationduring thedevelopment ofthis slide show

Searching Twitter Content

Problems
TwitterferenceSo many SMS tweets that you can’t make a phone call.
If it ever goes away, your content is gone
Considered too distracting by some
If you don’t participate, you won’t get anything out of it

7 Tips to a Good Twitter Experience
Follow unto others
@comment others
Link to your stuff
Don’t take non-responses personally
Be patient
Avoid addiction
Use your name
Source:http://meryl.net/2008/04/01/7-tips-to-a-good-twitter-experience/

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Contact Information
Michael SauersTechnology Innovation Librarian,Nebraska Library Commission
msauers@nlc.state.ne.us
www.travelinlibrarian.info
twitter.com/msauers
Christa BurnsOCLC Member Services Librarian,
NEBASE / Nebraska Library Commission
cburns@nlc.state.ne.us
christajoy.blogspot.com
twitter.com/cjburns