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Twitter101
- 1. Welcome to Twitter 101! Step 1: Sign up.
- 2. Create Username and Password
- 5. People to Follow @etech_ohio @ShinyYouth @angelasiefer @drsimrak @GenSimrak *Search for friends and follow who they follow.
- 7. Search for friends via your Email.
- 9. #Hashtag
- 10. Find trends that apply to you.
- 12. Put your professional self out there… safely.
- 13. Facebook and Twitter lingos are different.
- 14. What do I tweet about? • What are you learning at #oetc12? • Who have you met/heard speak? – mention them in your tweet by using @username • Make suggestions to #oetc12 organizers • Tweet the speakers.
- 15. Keep track of your friends with Lists
- 17. Add people to your list.
- 18. Protected Tweets
Editor's Notes
- Welcome to Twitter 101. It’s time we learn a little about how your students are communicating. Please take a seat. If you haven’t already signed up for a Twitter account, now is the time to do that. There are volunteers around the room to assist you. I will also walk you through the process quickly. Time is limited, so we’re going to go pretty fast. First, go your browser and type in twitter.com. You’ll see something that looks like this. Click on “Sign up.”
- Fill in your name, email address and choose a password. Include letters, numbers, spaces, capital letters… Something that cannot be easily guessed but easy for you to remember. Then choose a username. It will give you suggestions and will tell you if it’s available. Twitter will send you a confirmation email. You will need to check your email and click on the link they send you to confirm it.I created a fake account, so don’t follow me on this one. I’ll show you my real one in just a bit.
- “Tweets are short messages that have up to 140 characters and can contain links like…” the one you see on the screen. (ARROW) These links can be articles, videos, pictures, or websites that you want to share. If it’s a long address, twitter will usually automatically shorten it, but it will link to the same place.Simplest way to explain it: like Facebook statuses. Many people connect the two networks.
- First thing to do once you have your account is follow people! To find them, type in the @symbol followed by the username of the person you are looking for.
- If you’ll notice, there is always an @ symbol in front of the usernames. To find someone or to copy someone on your tweet, you must include the @ symbol with the username – with NO SPACES – if you want them to receive it. Capital letters make no difference.The ones you see on the screen are important people to follow while you’re here at the conference. You can also find people by seeing who your friends follow.Get the usernames of those sitting around the room. You can follow each other during the conference and connect each other with others at the conference. (Give them a couple minutes to do this.)
- Upon initial sign up, they give you options of people to follow divided by categories. Feel free to browse through them on your own. Here I just chose a few that interested me.These next few steps can be done on your own time. It’s just finding people which you can do at any time. But for the sake of time, scroll to the bottom of the page and click on “Skip This Step.” (ARROW)
- You can have twitter search for your friends through your email. It will search through the email addresses in your contacts and find matching ones in twitter. Then you can decide if you want to follow them or not. Once you click on “Follow,” it will send that person an email saying you are now following them. It doesn’t work the same way as Facebook where they have to approve your request. You simply follow them and their tweets will then show up on your timeline. Unless your tweets are protected. Which we’ll talk about later.
- This is what your HOME page looks like. Your timeline is on the right where all the tweets of those you follow show up. Including your own. You can see I followed my real twitter. On the left hand column, three boxes down, you will see Worldwide Trends.(ARROW) These are what’s being tweeted about the most in the “Twittersphere.” Some of them have a pound sign (#) in front of them. This is called a hashtag.
- Peoplehashtag an idea when they want others to join the bandwagon of tweeting about that idea. Sometimes the hashtag already exists. Sometimes you make it up. Ohio Educational Technology Conference has one. It’s #OETC12. If you’re here, you should be tweeting about it.
- Type in #oetc12 in the search bar.
- All the tweets that have to do with the conference will be there. You can see who is following #oetc12 and follow them. Start up a conversation with some of them.
- We will get to the privacy aspect in a minute, because I know that’s a concern you all have. But for now, let’s put a face on your username. (ARROW) As soon as you get a chance, find a picture on your phone or computer and put it up so others know who you are and that it’s really you. There are a lot of fake users and spam out there so you want people to know that you are actually a person with a life. For your location, (ARROW) I never say exactly where I live online. I put Philadelphia as it’s the nearest big city and I live in that region. You can make it as specific or non-specific as you are comfortable. I also want people to see my website/blog, so I put it on there. You don’t have to.For your bio, (ARROW) KEEP IT CONCISE, DESCRIPTIVE, AND NOT WORDY. Choose a few words that describe what you’re like or who you are. Some may choose to write their occupation. Some keep it vague. Here, in my alter-ego, I described myself as “Mom, country dancer, bluegrass enthusiast, art lover, avid reader.” Now some of those things are true, other are wishful thinking. You get to guess which are which. You can also choose to connect your Twitter to your Facebook so that when you post on twitter, it shows up on Facebook. I choose not to do this for a couple reasons: 1) I don’t entirely trust Facebook. And 2) Twitter-speak is different than Facebook-speak.
- If I connected my facebook and twitter accounts, this would show up on all my facebook friends’ newsfeeds. They wouldn’t understand it. ShinyYouth would not come up as a link and no one would know what #oetc12 is. It’s not relevant to anyone on Facebook. My friends would eventually unsubscribe from my facebook statuses altogether. Not cool. But some people like to do it because they want to reach all networks quickly and succinctly. So, for them, they have that option.
- You could get in a twitter conversation with one of the speakers! Tweet each other. Bring others in on your conversation. Build community through your networking.Observe others’ tweets. @Reply to some of them. Get in a conversation.
- Keep track of your friends with Lists. Go to the dropdown menu and click on lists. We’re going to create a Twitter 101 Class List and add all of us to that list.
- Type in Twitter 101 as your list name. You can either make this public or private. If you want others to see who was in your class and you want to aid in the #oetc12 networking, feel free to make it public. Personal lists can be kept private.
- Once your list is made, you can easily add people to it by clicking on the dropdown box for each person.
- Privacy is a big concern for a lot of people. That’s probably one of the biggest reasons why people hesitate to join social networks. Yet, Twitter is a powerful tool for connecting with peers and expanding your professional and personal horizons. If used wisely, the resulting social network can provide immense value. You have the option to protect your tweets which means only the people you allow to follow you can see your tweets.People will have to request to follow you and you will have to manually accept them. Your Tweets will only be visible to users you’ve approved, meaning that other users will not be able to retweet your tweets. Protected tweets will not appear in Twitter search or in hashtag lists@replies you send to people who aren’t following you will not be seen by those users (b/c you have not given them permission to see your Tweets)This information can be found in the Help section.
- Questions??