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What is Twitter?

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<ul><li>Twitter describes itself as, “a micro blogging service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?” </li></ul>

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<ul><ul><li>Twitter was created in March 2006 by jack Dorsey </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>In 5 years over 200,000,000 registered users </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>1650 tweets per second </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>majority of twitter users are between 35 and 49 </li></ul></ul>

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<ul><li>Hashtags: helping you find interesting Tweets: People use the hashtag symbol # before relevant keywords in their Tweet to categorize those Tweets to show more easily in Twitter Search. Clicking on a hashtagged word in any message shows you all other Tweets in that category. Hashtags can occur anywhere in the Tweet. Hashtagged words that become very popular are often Trending Topics </li></ul>

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1. Be willing to engage and follow other people. 2. Don’t chat. 3. Twitter is public. Duh. 4. Take a break. 5. Go easy on self promotion.

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Twitter as a news breaker . Twitter as a feed reader (for more important feeds) . Twitter as a marketing tool. Twitter as a tracking device . Twitter as a tool to communicate during conferences.

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<ul><li>Terms to know </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Tweet: a single twitter message of 140 characters </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Profile: your twitter persona of 160 characters </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Follower: relationship in which a person choses to receive your tweets </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Timeline: globally visible twitter stream </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>@Reply: a public response to a single user that is directed to a special inbox for that use. Also appears on tweet stream of that person's followers. </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Retweet: twitter message forwarded to another member's followers </li></ul></ul>

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Twitter Home Page

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Twitter Profile