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

The act of blogging that is:

Short

Fast

Easy

Mobile

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

Answer the question “What are you doing?” in 140 characters or less

Follow friends

Be followed

Like IM, but asynchronous

No “status”, others don’t know if you’re 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

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

twitterfeed

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

@ username

d username message

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 tweets via SMS

Read your friends’ tweets via your Twitter homepage

Read via a client

Subscribe via RSS

Receive tweets via SMS

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

Ultra simple blogging

Conferences

Reference Questions

News

Emergency Services

Weather

Presidential Campaigning

Web site updates

Conversations

Humor

Characters

Ann Arbor District Library

NLC Reference

BBC News

Mars Phoenix

LA Fire Department

Providence, RI Weather

Barack Obama

“ Darth Vader”

Searching Twitter Content

Problems Twitterference So 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

Twitterference So 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/

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 Sauers Technology Innovation Librarian, Nebraska Library Commission [email_address] www.travelinlibrarian.info twitter.com/msauers Christa Burns OCLC Member Services Librarian, NEBASE / Nebraska Library Commission [email_address] christajoy.blogspot.com twitter.com/cjburns http://www.slideshare.net/event/internet-librarian-2008

Michael Sauers Technology Innovation Librarian, Nebraska Library Commission

[email_address]

www.travelinlibrarian.info

twitter.com/msauers

Christa Burns OCLC Member Services Librarian,

NEBASE / Nebraska Library Commission

[email_address]

christajoy.blogspot.com

twitter.com/cjburns