slides from Jason Rhode's presentation on Twitter Basics & Extensions as part of the online session, "Using Twitter for Teaching, Learning and Professional Development in Higher Education"; complete online handout and archived session are available at http://bit.ly/twitterinedu

1. Twitter Basics

2. Twitter Described “Part blog, part social networking site, and part cell phone/IM tool. It is designed to let users describe what they are doing or thinking at a given moment, in 140 characters or less” – Educause 7 Things You Should Know About Twitter 2

3. Twitter Search

4. Trending Topics "most breaking" news stories from across the world; hottest emerging trends and topics of discussion on Twitter

5. Platform Independent Twitter messages, referred to as “tweets” can be sent and received from multiple platforms: Web-based Twitter account Software client on any desktop or laptop Twitter app on smart phone Twitter app on tablet SMS from any phone The same Twitter account can be accessed from any of the above platforms!

6. The Web: Twitter.com

7. Twitter App: Smart Phone

8. Twitter App: iPad

9. SMS Account can be configured to allow for messages to be sent via SMS to 40404

10. http://www.editorsweblog.org/multimedia/2009/01/twitter_first_off_the_mark_with_hudson_p.php

11. Election Coverage on Twitter http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2010/election.pulse

12. Iranian Election Protests & Twitter http://www.newsweek.com/2009/06/25/a-twitter-timeline-of-the-iran-election.html

13. Haiti Earthquake http://mashable.com/2010/01/12/haiti-earthquake-pictures

14. Following Others Following someone on Twitter means: a) you are subscribing to their Tweets as a Follower b) their updates will appear in your timeline c) that person has permission to send you private Tweets, called direct messages

15. Followers People who receive your tweets

16. Anatomy of a Tweet

17. Hashtag (#) The # symbol, called a hashtag, is used to mark keywords or topics in a Tweet. It was created organically by Twitter users as a way to categorize messages.

18. @Mention Any Twitter update that contains @username anywhere in the body of the Tweet. (Yes, this means that replies are also considered mentions.)

19. @Reply Public reply to another Twitter user, always beginning with @username

20. Retweet (RT) Tweet that is reposted to your followers, either by clicking the “Retweet” link on the Twitter website or by beginning a tweet with RT @username

21. Direct Message (D) private message sent via Twitter to one of your followers

22. Favorites Favorites, represented by a small star icon next to a Tweet, are most commonly used when users like a Tweet and wish to save it for later.

23. Lists Collections of other users

24. Extending Twitter

25. Getting More Out of Twitter Clients TweetDeck HootSuite Seesmic Apps Official Twitter App 3rd Party Apps Utilities Twitterfeed twtpoll Shortening URLs Bit.ly Photos TwitPic yFrog Video yFrog Screenr

26. TweetDeck

27. HootSuite

28. Seesmic

29. Twitter App (iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad)

30. TweetDeck(iPad)

31. Shortening URLs: bit.ly

32. TwitPic: Photos

33. yFrog: Photos & Videos

34. Screencasts: Screenr

35. twtpoll

36. Twitterfeed

37. More Resources https://sites.google.com/site/twitterinedu/resources