This document discusses microblogging and the social media platform Twitter. It defines Twitter as "a short burst of inconsequential information" or "chirps from birds". Twitter allows for posting short messages of 140 characters or less. It also discusses features of Twitter like following others, hashtags, trends, and search. Hashtags are described as a way to add context and metadata by prefixing words with a # symbol. The document recommends creating lists and filtering tweets by topic to avoid noise. It encourages activity on Twitter through tweeting, following others, using hashtags, and getting followers.
4. Raul Hernandez Arthur What is “Twitter” ? Twitter is : “a short burst of inconsequential information” “chirps from birds” Twitter is also a: Free Social Media Microblogging What are you doing ?
5. Raul Hernandez Arthur Microblogging ? Jack Dorsey had grown interested in the simple idea of being able to know what his friends were doing 140 Characters To Follow or to be Followed ?
12. Raul Hernandez Arthur Build your network What does it mean to Follow ? Who Follows you ? Focus on convesation Who will you listen Who listens to you
13. Raul Hernandez Arthur Marketer’s Nightmare You can choose who to listen, but there is little you can do to make somebody listen to you ! Marketer’s nightmare !
14. Raul Hernandez Arthur “People on MySpace arent running away from pedophiles and stalkers. They’re running away from marketers and advertisers”Giovanni Gallucci, co-founder , Dexterity Media
15. Raul Hernandez Arthur NOISE Who cares ? Follow High value twitters Filter Dashboards
22. Raul Hernandez Arthur What is a hastag ? # Hashtags Hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets. They're like tags on Flickr, only added inline to your post. You create a hashtag simply by prefixing a word with a hash symbol: #hashtag. http://twitter.pbworks.com/
23. Raul Hernandez Arthur Hashtags Events or conferences, "Tara's presentation on communities was great! #barcampblock" Disasters: "#sandiegofire A shelter has opened up downtown for fire refugees." Memes: "My #themeword for 2008 is conduct." Context: "I can't believe anyone would design software like this! #microsoftoffice" Recall: "Buy some toilet paper. #todo" Quote: "Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people." ~Eleanor Roosevelt #quote
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