The document discusses Twitter and how collegiate athletic compliance departments use it. It defines Twitter as an online microblogging service and notes that over 500 million people use it, with 63% under 35. Compliance departments tweet to educate and inform students and coaches on NCAA rules by sharing messages like one from Bellarmine University warning against betting on the Super Bowl. The document ends by providing instructions on setting up a Twitter account for compliance purposes.

2. OBJECTIVES
Gain an understanding of Twitter
Gain an understanding of Twitter’s popularity
Gain an understanding of how collegiate athletic
compliance departments use Twitter
Set-up Twitter Account

3. WHAT IS TWITTER?
Online social Mircoblogging
networking service

4. TWITTER’S POPULARITY
63% of Twitter
500 million
340 million users are
registered
tweets daily under thirty-
users
five years old
One of the ten
“Known as the
most visited
SMS”
websites

5. HOW DO ATHLETIC COMPLIANCES USE TWITTER?
Educate student
athletes and coaches
Inform student
athletes and coaches

6. TWITTER IN ACTION BY BELLARMINE UNIVERSITY
BellarmineCompliance @BUKnightsComply
NCAA student-athletes who place bets of any kind
on the Super Bowl will lose one year of
eligibility. Soooo not worth it. #dontbetonit

7. ATHLETIC COMPLIANCE ON TWITTER
Division I Division II
• University of • Bellarmine University
Kentucky • McKendree University
• Duke University
• Stanford University
• Oklahoma University
• Michigan University

8. SETTING-UP TWITTER ACCOUNT
Name- Email Password Username
• Jessica Chandler • chandlerjb@umsl • BASKETBALL • UMSLCompliance

9. SETTING-UP TWITTER ACCOUNT
Let’s Get
Started.