This document provides information about Twitter and how it can be used as an educational tool for individuals with autism. It includes definitions of common Twitter terms like tweets, hashtags, follows and favorites. It also describes the presenter's own experience using Twitter with their autistic child to help develop oral communication and writing skills by having the child tweet what they want along with a picture.

1. Twitter
www.twitter.com
Presented by
Rashelle S. Hayek
Rach.hayek@Hotmail.com
70 847 845

2. About twitter
- Twitter helps you create and share ideas
and information instantly, without barriers
- It is one of the best way to connect with
people, express yourself and discover what's
happening

3. Tweeter usage:
• 284 million monthly active users
• 500 million Tweets are sent per day
• 80% of Twitter active users are on mobile
• 77% of accounts are outside the U.S.
• Twitter supports 35+ languages

4. Company facts:
• 3,600 employees in offices around the
world
• 50% of employees are engineers
• Incorporated April 19, 2007
• At Twitter HQ we consume 1,440
hard-boiled eggs weekly.
• We also drink 585 gallons of coffee per
week.

5. Twitter profits goes to many fundraiser
- Girls at the nonprofit Oasis for Girls received
a graduation gift from Twitter
- Serving San Francisco's homeless families
to design a learning center
- Marking Earth Day close to home
- #FridayforGood: Get out and do
- Hunger Action Month

6. The Twitter Glossary
Vocabulary &
terminology
used to talk
about features
and aspects of
Twitter

7. > A Tweet is an expression of a moment
or idea. It can contain text, photos, and
videos.
What is a Tweet??

8. -> What is a Tweet??

9. Millions of Tweets are shared in real time,
every day

11. “@” sign
is used to call out usernames in Tweets:
"Hello @twitter!"
People will use your @username to mention
you in Tweets, send you a message or link
to your profile.

12. @username
- Is how you're identified on Twitter
- It is always preceded immediately by the
@ symbol.
For instance, Katy Perry is @katyperry.

13. -> @username

14. BIO
Your bio is a short (up to 160 characters)
personal description that appears in your
profile that serves to characterize your
personal on Twitter.

15. -> BIO

16. Hashtag “#”
People use the hashtag symbol # before a
relevant keyword or phrase (no spaces) in
their Tweet to categorize those Tweets &
help them show more easily in twitter search
Clicking on a hash tagged word in any
message shows you all other Tweets marked
with that keyword

17. -> Hashtag “#”
Hashtags can occur anywhere in the Tweet –
at the beginning, middle, or end

18. -> Hashtags “#”

19. Direct message
- Have private conversations with people you
follow who also follow you
- Messages have a 140-character limit and
can contain text, hashtags, links, photos and
video

20. -> Direct message

21. Discover
Personalized content tailored to your
interests

22. Favorite
- Indicates that you liked a specific Tweet
- You can find all of your favorite Tweets by
clicking on the favorites link on your profile
page

23. -> Favorite

24. Follow
- The Follow button to follow (or unfollow)
anyone on Twitter at any time
- When you follow someone, you will see
their Tweets in your Home stream

25. -> Follow

26. -> Follow
- Follow count
This count reflects how many people you
follow and how many follow you
- These numbers are found on your Twitter
profile.

27. -> Follow

28. Home
Home is your real-time stream of Tweets
from those you follow.

29. Mention
- You can mention by including the @ sign
followed directly by their username
- Refers to Tweets in which your @username
was included.

30. -> Mention

31. Reply
- Reply by clicking the "reply" button next to
the Tweet you'd like to respond to.

32. -> Reply

33. Retweet - RT
The act of sharing another user's Tweet to all
of your followers by clicking on the Retweet
button

34. -> Retweet - RT

35. Trends
A Trend is a topic or hashtag determined
algorithmically to be one of the most popular
on Twitter at that moment
- You can choose to tailor Trends based on
your location and who you follow

36. -> Trends

38. Technology for “autism”
Everyday new technology is changing our
lives in ways we never imagined.
For individuals with autism, some new
technologies can improve communication,
assist in the development of social skills,
and enhance the ability to learn

39. Own Experience
I tried to implement “Twitter” as an education
tool with one of my autistic child, by asking
him “what do you want” and he must answer
“orally” and then “writing it” on twitter as a
tweet.
Example: I asked him “what do you want?” he
said “I want to eat breakfast” and he write the
sentence as a tweet.

40. -> Own Experience
Before he posted the tweet, I asked him to
take the picture of his breakfast and to tweet
it.
Due to my experience with the kid using this
tool it was successful tool which can be
applied with autism.

41. Autism Tweets

42. -> Autism Tweets

43. -> Autism Tweets

44. -> Autism Tweets