What are you doing?

Twitter Mix of business and personal Tweet, tweet, tweet 140 characters max Notes and links Grew 1400% this year

Mix of business and personal

Tweet, tweet, tweet

140 characters max

Notes and links

Grew 1400% this year

Twitter “ What are you doing?” Reach pre-approved group of “friends” “ Self-indulgent, 24/7 exhibitionism?” - The Week , May 1, 2009 “ The water cooler of the 21 st century.” - Joel Comm, Twitter Power 14 million users 2.25 million tweets ¼ of 535 members of Congress Tweeting during inauguration

“ What are you doing?”

Reach pre-approved group of “friends”

“ Self-indulgent, 24/7 exhibitionism?” - The Week , May 1, 2009

“ The water cooler of the 21 st century.” - Joel Comm, Twitter Power

14 million users

2.25 million tweets

¼ of 535 members of Congress

Tweeting during inauguration

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“ See something, say something”

Give it away

URL shorteners

tinyurl.com

http://cli.gs

Retweet (RT)

Forward other messages

@rossfishman

#ABAChicago

hashtag

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