How to use Twitter (X) for educational Tweet Chats by Nadeem Khan, Teacher and Trainer from Maharashtra. The slide is a guide on conducting/participating in a tweet chat.

1. TWITTER FOR PERSONAL
LEARNING NETWORK
AINET ASSOCIATION OF ENGLISHTEACHERS

2. WHAT ISTWITTER?
 A micro-blogging service
 Send/receive short text-based posts
 280 character limit
 Can attach photos/short videos, GIFs

3. WHY USETWITTER?
 Take charge of your own learning
 Keep current with latest developments in field
 Connect and collaborate with experts & colleagues in
field/areas of interest.
 Develop professional identity/additional career
opportunities.

4. HOWTO START?
 Go to twitter.com or downloadTwitter App from Play
Store
 Create username (If your full/brand name is not
available/too long, create one with name + adjective
or profession.)
 Add profile photo
 Add bio: a few words describing your work + links to
website or LinkedIn

5. LETS STARTTWITTING
DownloadTwitter
App or Go to
www.twitter.com
Sign Up

6. TWITTER HOME PAGE

7. JOINTWITTER: ADD DETAILS

8. GET GREENTICK MARKS

9. FIND CODEYOU GOT IN SMS

10. VERIFY CODE

11. ENTER EMAIL ID FOR SECURITY

12. TYPE USERNAME

13. YOU CAN CHANGE USERNAME LATER

14. YOUR PROFILE IS CREATED

15. SELECTYOUR INTERESTS

16. SEARCH AND ADDYOUR INTERESTS

17. YOU CAN SKIP IMPORTING CONTACTS

18. FOLLOW LIST AS PERYOUR INTERESTS

19. WELCOME HOME

20. JOIN CONVERSATION BY CLICKING
REPLY BUTTON

21. SPREADTHE WORD BY RETWEETING

22. LIKETWEETS

23. UPLOADYOUR PHOTO CLICKING
CAMERA BUTTON

24. LOOK BEAUTIFUL, ADDYOUR PIC

25. PROFILE PIC ADDED, LOOKS LIKETHIS

26. YOURTIMELINE APPEARS LIKETHIS

27. ADD COVER PIC IN BLUE
BACKGROUND

28. CLICK ON EDIT PROFILE FOR
UPDATING COVER PIC

29. CLICK CAMERA BUTTONTO ADD A
HEADER PHOTO

30. ADD BIO (LIKES, PROFESSIONAL,
PERSONAL INFO, DOB ETC)

31. SAVE DETAILS

32. CLICK SAVE CHANGES BUTTON

33. READYTOTWIT

34. HOME PAGE

35. CHECK NOTIFICATIONS

36. SEE NEWTWEETS

37. SUGGESTIONS TO FOLLOW

38. CREATE ATWEET

39. USE HASHTAG,TAG PEOPLE

40. SEEYOURTWEET ONYOUR HOMEPAGE

41. SOME PROFILESTO FOLLOW

42. SOME PROFILESTO FOLLOW

43. SOME PROFILESTO FOLLOW

44. SOME PROFILESTO FOLLOW

45. SOME PROFILESTO FOLLOW

46. SOME PROFILESTO FOLLOW

47. TWITTER LINGO

48. Twitter Lingo
Hashtag #
The community-driven practice of tagging an individual tweet by
using a hash in front of the tag. Example: Putting
#MahaRMSACHESS in a tweet about the CHESS project.
Hashtags allow the community to easily search or stream a
particular subject.
Unfollow/De-Follow
This is a common social networking term referring to the act of
taking someone off of your friends list. It’s aTwitter-specific version.
Dweet
A tweet sent while drunk.

49. Twitter Lingo
Microblog
Twitter is often referred to as a microblog because it allows people to
update their status using only 140 characters.
Mistweet
Accidentally sending a tweet to the wrong person or wishing you
didn't send a particular tweet.
Dweets can often become Mistweets.
Retweet (RT)
A Retweet is a repeated tweet. It is sometimes used in a reply to
allow everyone to see the original tweet. It is also used to forward a
message onto one's own followers.

50. Twitter Lingo
Tweeple
Twitter users.
Tweeps
Twitter followers who are your friends on multiple social networks.
Tweet
A message sent viaTwitter.
Tweet Back
Bringing an older tweet back into the conversation

51. Twitter Lingo
Tweeter
A person who tweets.
Twitosphere
Twitter users or the community of tweeters.
Twalking
To tweet while walking.
@ Sign
The @ refers to individuals onTwitter. It is combined with a
username and inserted into tweets to refer to that person or send
them a public message.

52. Twitter Lingo
Blocking
Blocking onTwitter means preventing someone from following you
or subscribing to your tweets.
Direct Message, DM
A direct message is a private message sent onTwitter to someone
who is following you.These cannot be sent to anyone who is not
following you. OnTwitter's website, click the "message" menu and
then "new message" to send a direct message. More about DM.
Favorite
Favorite is a feature onTwitter that allows you to mark a tweet as a
favorite to easily see it later. Click the "Favorite" link (next to a heart
icon) beneath any tweet to favorite it.

53. Twitter Lingo
Follow, Follower
Following someone onTwitter means subscribing to their tweets or
messages. A follower is someone who follows or subscribes to another
person's tweets. Learn more in this guide toTwitter followers.
Handle, Username
ATwitter handle is a username selected by anyone usingTwitter and
must contain fewer than 15 characters. EachTwitter handle has a unique
URL, with the handle added after twitter.com. Example:
http://twitter.com/username.
Lists
Twitter lists are collections ofTwitter accounts which anyone can create.
People can follow aTwitter list with one click and see a stream of all the
tweets sent by everyone in that list.

54. Twitter Lingo
PromotedTweets
Promoted tweets areTwitter messages that companies or businesses have
paid to promote so they appear at the top ofTwitter's search results.
Reply, @Reply
A reply onTwitter is a direct tweet sent by clicking on the "reply" button
that appears on another tweet, thus linking the two tweets. Reply tweets
always start with "@username."
TrendingTopic
Trending topics onTwitter are topics people are tweeting about that are
deemed most popular at any given moment.They appear on the right side
of yourTwitter homepage. In addition to the official "trending topics" list,
many third-party tools are available for tracking the most popular
keywords and hashtags onTwitter.

55. Twitter Lingo
Twitterati
Twitterati is slang for popular users onTwitter, people who usually have
large groups of followers and are well known.
Verified Account
Verified is the phraseTwitter uses for accounts for which it has certified the
owner's identity-- that the user is who they claim to be.Verified accounts
are marked with a blue checkmark badge on their profile page. Many
belong to celebrities, politicians, media personalities and well-known
businesses.
Bit.ly
A service that condenses long URLs into shorter ones to allow you to say
more about the link.

56. PLN ACTIVITIES
 Create your PLN
 Follow People
 Tweet at least 10 times using hashtag #ainetconnect #ELTIndia
 Retweet at least 10 tweets from people you follow
 Favourite/Like at least 20 tweets
 Reply to 1-2 tweets you liked
 Pledge to joinTwitter Chat, Join one when its happening
 Remember: Share toTwitter after you find some interesting information.
 KeepTweeting

60. BEST PRACTICES
 Keep tweets short
 Use Hashtag
 Share links
 Ask questions, quote articles, comment
 Use images to increase RTs
 Limit use of Hashtags to 1-3
 Thank people who mention you
 Avoid personal posts as tweets

61. TWEET CHAT

62. WHAT IS ATWEET CHAT
 In the broadest sense, a twitter chat is conversation on a specific topic held on
twitter.
 But of course, it’s more complicated than that.
 Let’s look at its characteristics.

63. CHARACTERISTICS OF ATWEET CHAT
 1. A twitter chat is a twitter-based public discussions on a specific topic.
Generally, there are pre-written questions that act as prompts. These are
tweeted using a hashtag so participants can follow the chat/discussion and
participate.
 2. Twitter chats are generally held ‘live.’ This means that people wanting to
‘chat’ ‘meet’ at a specific time and respond to questions from a twitter chat
host.
 3. The questions are posted at regular intervals as Q1, Q2, Q3, etc., reply to the
question tweet and begin your post with A1, A2, A3 etc., accordingly. Don’t
forget to write hashtag at the end. Finish within the character limit given at the
bottom. Don’t let it turn red.

64. #HASHTAG
 Hashtag (#) is the soul of any TweetChat. A #hashtag is used to unify the
TweetChat. Twitter chat participants can search for the hashtag and view the
entire conversation in one single stream and append their own tweets with the
given hashtag in order to have their contributions join the chat/conversation.
 Note, sometimes the #hashtag used is general enough to be used by twitter
users that have no interest in or awareness of the conversation being held. For
example, if the twitter chat is one mobile learning and the hashtag #newnormal
is used, someone may tweet and use the #newnormal hashtag completely
unaware of the chat being held.
 At times, this adds to the conversation, as the ongoing use of the hashtag
allows for new ideas and resources to be discovered. At others, it allows for
irrelevant tweets (that are skipped over easily enough by readers, of course) to
be unwittingly included in the conversation.

65. TWEET CHATS ARE IMMORTAL
 Speaking of ongoing use, another great part about twitter chats is that they
don’t have to stop, but can continue indefinitely.
 While the formal question-and-answer portion usually ends at a pre-
determined time, users can access the ‘chat’ at anytime by searching for the
specific #hashtag used in the chat. Between formal twitter chat gatherings and
set times, users can continue to use the hashtag to join the conversation.
 (In fact, it could be argued that this is the ideal use of hashtags–persistent and
ongoing–rather than the more formal meet-and-answer-questions-for-an-hour
approach.)

66. TIPS FOR EXCELLING AT ATWEET CHAT
 Copy the hashtags of the TweetChat (usually shared by the host) in your
clipboard so that you can paste it while answering and replying others as well.
 Follow the Q1/A1, Q2/A2 method of replying to the questions posted by the
chat moderators.
 If you feel lost, just tap on the moderator’s profile and see all questions posted.
 Click on the question Tweet to open the thread, read all the answers and join
the chat by clicking reply button of the main question tweet.
 Or simply tap Quote Tweet (same Retweet Button) and Comment.
 Appreciate others and use GIFs to express your emotions.
 Please visit this real #TweetChat by @ainetindia https://bit.ly/tweetchatjuly

67. THANKYOU!
AINET Association of EnglishTeachers
www.theainet.net
theainet@gmail.com
@ainetindia