Presentation for the Alabama Library Association, April 14, 2010

1. Tap Into…. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a6/Water_spigot.jpg http://tinyurl.com/tapintotwitter Alabama Library Association April 14, 2010 Wendy Stephens @wsstephens Buckhorn High School New Market, Alabama

2. ambient awareness

4. Why 140 characters? Odeo.com: “a dispatch service that connects our phones via text” @jack – March 21, 2006 SXSWi

5. Rapid sharing

6. Anatomy of a Tweet avatar user name 140 characters = message body @ = mention RT = retweet time stamp software used # = hashtag

7. Anatomy of a twitter feed Twitter handle Avatar Real name Location Bio Your lists Your tools Following Followers Listed Tweet count Starred tweets Following avatars RSS!

8. About the RT Citation, 21st Century Style Manual versus Twitter’s Integrated Retweeting Twitter’s RT indicated by the recursive arrow icon Using Twitter’s RT, you can’t edit or add comments You DO see how many others have RTed it Note the bit.ly url URL shorteners are a must when tweeting When you manually RT, you can edit, add comments

9. Dialogue: About the @ a reply or a mention starts the conversation you don’t have to follow someone to see their @ reply or @ reply to them If someone is following both you AND the other tweep, they will see the dialogue in their timeline

10. versus Facebook status update and Twitter both a form of microblogging, but…. Open Closed Public Invitation-only Rally Party No permission to Permission required view (usually) required Don’t want to manage two web presences? Twitter can update FB, FB can update Twitter

13. Can be from your phone – via text to 40404 or app Texting 40404 and the following commands allows you to…. FOLLOWusername Start following a user UNFOLLOWusername Stop following a user ON/OFF Turn all Tweet notifications on or off ON/OFFusername Set Tweet notifications for a user on or off (you'll still be following them even if you set it to off) GETusername Shows you the latest tweet from any user RTusernameRetweet a user's latest tweet FAVusername Favorite a user's latest tweet Dusername your-message Send a direct message to a user

14. Blogs & calendars can be set to auto-tweet

15. Twitter can be closed -- DMs

16. DMs can come to your phone

17. DMs can come to your email

18. Twitter can be private on tweep’s page the padlock on timeline

39. @Ryanatmghwom

45. Tap Into…. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a6/Water_spigot.jpg http://tinyurl.com/tapintotwitter Alabama Library Association April 14, 2010 Wendy Stephens @wsstephens Buckhorn High School New Market, Alabama