2. Introduction
Welcome
What are hoping to learn today?
What experience have you had with
Twitter?
This isn’t necessarily about conducting
research about those on Twitter. We
will not cover IRB issues.
3.
4. What is Twitter?
An online service that lets you answer
the question: What are you doing?
Why would we want to answer this
question?
As researchers? Graduate students?
Faculty? What am I doing?
http://www.techterms.com/definition/twitt
er
5. Twitter Basics: A
Tour
You need an account
There are multiple clients (i.e.
TweetDeck)
Using your real name/photo?
140 characters
#Hashtags
Retweets (RT or MT @claudiakincaid)
Following/Followers
Searching for people & topics
Creating lists
6. Finding Others and
Disseminating Your Work
To find others:
◦ Who is on Twitter?
http://www.pewresearch.org/2013/03/04/t
witter-reaction-to-events-often-at-odds-
with-overall-public-opinion/
◦ How can we find them?
◦ What are they doing there?
◦ Do I care?
7. “Eavesdropping” & Visualizing
Research suggests that
“eavesdropping” on Twitter can itself
be productive.
What are other’s reading? Writing
about?
Oh, who’s that?
Seeing your audience: Mention Map
http://mentionmapp.com/beta/classic/in
dex.php#user-claudiakincaid
8. Stats, stats, and more stats
Tools to visualize and search:
http://twittertoolsbook.com/10-awesome-twitter-analytics-
visualization-tools/
http://tweetreach.com/
http://topsy.com/thebillfold.com/2013/02/we-ask-that-you-do-not-
call-us-professor/?infonly=1
And, for keeping your Tweets:
http://twdocs.com
(Smithsonian Museum is also archiving)
9. Disseminating Your Work
A little trickier here because you must
participate
Be a person, not a company
Have a voice, an opinion
Talk to others, engage in conversation
Also, be kind, thank people (citation here)
Ask questions
START BLOGGING
Share your publications, works in
progress, upcoming talks
Deborah Lupton as case study:
http://sydney.edu.au/research/spotlight/lupton.s
html
