Tweets, retweets, followers, and tweeps. Unlock the mysteries of the twitterverse and discover what twitter can do for the personal family historian and professional genealogist.

1. Mark Tucker

4. Growth (12/08 – 12/09) 4.4M 22.8M 418%

5. Growth (4/08 – 4/09) 17M

6. Twitter Early Adopters ~50% of Twitter Users are 35+ years old U.S. Unique Visitor (000) Trend (Source: comScore Media Metrix)

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9. Sign up Demo

10. Who has never seen a Tweet before?

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13. If I tweet and nobody is following me, can it still be seen?

14. Timelines Public Timeline http://twitter.com/public_timeline Your Profile http://twitter.com/marktucker Followers Home Page http://twitter.com/home Lists Following You http://twitter.com/FHExpos/fhexpo

19. Old-Style Retweet Tweet by: genlighten (72 followers) Retweet by: hikari17 (289 followers) Dean Richardson Tweet by: marktucker (1357 followers) Retweet by: rootsmagic (250 followers)

20. New-Style Retweet Tweet by: TomKemp Retweet by: megansmolenyak

23. Search http://search.twitter.com/ genealogy OR #genealogy OR "family history" -MLM Example: http://search.twitter.com/advanced http://search.twitter.com/operators

27. Following People & Lists Demo

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