Twitter and the new leaders

Twitter and the new leaders
How young people are using Twitter to shape the future

Today’s lecture will cover
Hashtag for lecture is #twitlect
What is Twitter?
How is Twitter used?
Why is Twitter significant?
A chat with @livbambola
And Skype meeting with @newsbee
Questions (if we have time)
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But first
Today’s lecture is experimental
It’s being broadcast on Twitcam
Viewers can add comments and ask questions and…
questions and comments on Twitter using the #twitlecthashtag
It will be available on YouTube later today
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Twitter is…
Free service
Based on the net at www.twitter.com
Publish updates containing a maximum of 140 characters
And subscribe to other users updates
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Available on
www.twitter.com
A variety of desktop packages
Mobile phones
iPhone
Blackberry
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Giving Twitter significance
Bigger than Digg, LinkedIn and Nytimes.com by number of visitors (32 million in March 2009)
Britney, Ashton, Miley (until recently) and Demi
And Ellen and Oprah and Dr Phil
How about CNN and MSNBC
And Barack, Kev07 and Gordon Brown
#twitlect Source: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/20/twitter-surges-past-digg-linkedin-and-nytimescom-with-32-million-global-visitors/

How is Twitter being used?
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Eminem
Hides tickets then tweets the location
Updates fans
Last tweet in August
Did he get bored?
#twitlect Image source: http://shameber.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/eminem-2.jpg accessed October 12, 2009

Brits
Tweets location of tix
Sends links to pics and vids
Sells merchandise
Promotes concerts
Manages brand
#twitlect Image source: http://www.morethings.com/pictures/music/britney_spears01.jpg downloaded October 12, 2009

Nathan, Nat and Shaun
What’s happening at Nova
Competitions and giveaways
#twitlect Image source: http://images.watoday.com.au/2009/06/19/590376/nova-420x0.jpg downloaded October 12, 2009

Citizen journalism
Mumbai 70 tweets/five seconds 1
Blood donations
Help lines
Let friends know they’re safe
Used in conjunction with Flickr and Twitpic
Plus bushfires, elections, earthquakes, tsunamis
#twitlect Image source: http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01122/bomb_1122141a.jpg downloaded October 12, 2009
1. Source: Mumbai Attacks: Twitter and Flickr used to break news, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/3530640/Mumbai-attacks-Twitter-and-Flickr-used-to-break-news-Bombay-India.html accessed October 12, 2009

It’s also used to
Establish friendships #PTUB
Connect and network @kaz747
Advertise @rob_ham
Customer service @comcastcares
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LivBambola
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About @livbambola
Trainee business analyst at St John of God Health Care
Buying an investment property
Writes a blog at bambolasdiary.blogspot.com/
Tweets a lot. That’s a lot.
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Lanai Vasek
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About @newsbee
Annoying kid who asked too many questions
OUA Net Studies student last semester
Business Owner editor at news.com.au
Author on The Punch
Cat called Salmon
Has a thing for Malcolm Turnbull’s ute
On secondment to The Australian
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