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Twitter Talk Michael Rees School of IT A DotDolfin.com Production

What is Twitter?
Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users’ updates (otherwise known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length
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June 7, 2009 Twitter Talk

Twitter Features
140-character limit
Sent/received from web, client or mobile
Create a set of followers
Send replies
Send direct messages
Open API

Where does Twitter sit? June 7, 2009 Twitter Talk

Twitter.com June 7, 2009 Twitter Talk

Twitter Video June 7, 2009 Twitter Talk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSHvikBuv3Y&eurl=http://dotdolfin.com/twitter/twitter-on-video/

Twitter Badge
Choose photo carefully

Sending Tweets
Regular tweets
Replies: start with @username
Direct messages: start with d username
Hashtags: #bushfires

Followers
Choose wisely
About 150 max: Dunbar’s number

The Twitterverse June 7, 2009 Twitter Talk

Twitter in Education
Twitter for Academia
Class chatter both inside (if allowed) and outside: often only tangentially related
Classroom community carries on into the real world
A sense of the world: check the public tweet timeline but beware of obscene language
Track a word: use Twitter search to follow discussion about a topic over time (word has to be relatively uncommon)
Follow a professional or famous person: use Twitter search or actually follow them
Get instant feedback: ask a question and often receive many answers quickly
Public notepad: share ideas while planning, creating

Twitter Practical
Sign up: see http://dotdolfin.com/twitter/starting-with-twitter/
Follow: BondClassFeb09
Follow your fellow classmates as they are known

Wrap-up
Twitter has about 5 million users
According to Martin Weller Twitter is:
A digital water cooler
A stream you dip into
A cocktail party
A virtual office
What knowledge management always wanted to be
Networking for Agoraphobics

Twitter Slides

by Michael Rees on Feb 08, 2009

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