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What are you doing now? The Twitterfication of the Web Michael Sauers & Christa Burns Nebraska Library Commission

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What is microblogging? <ul><li>The act of blogging that is: </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Short </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Fast </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Easy </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Mobile </li></ul></ul>

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Enter Twitter <ul><li>Answer the question “What are you doing now?” in 140 characters or less </li></ul><ul><li>Follow friends </li></ul><ul><li>Be followed </li></ul><ul><li>Like IM but asynchronous </li></ul><ul><ul><li>No “status”, others don’t know if your paying attention </li></ul></ul>

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Create an account

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Set up posting options

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Design your home page

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Post <ul><li>A post: “Tweet” </li></ul><ul><li>Creating a post: “Tweeting” </li></ul><ul><li>Methods </li></ul><ul><ul><li>via the Web (twitter.com) </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>via a client (Twhirl) </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>via a bookmarklet (TwitThis) </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>via e-mail </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>via IM (twitter) </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>via SMS (40404) </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Blog-to-Twitter (twitterfeed) </li></ul></ul><ul><li>URL’s that extend past the 140 character limit are automatically turned into TinyURLs </li></ul>

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Twitter.com

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Twhirl

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Twitter Vista Gadget

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TwitThis

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EmailTwitter.com

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TWITTERFEED

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Twitter commands <ul><li>@ username </li></ul><ul><li>d username message </li></ul><ul><li>nudge username </li></ul><ul><li>l: location information </li></ul><ul><li>follow username </li></ul><ul><li>leave username </li></ul><ul><li>block username </li></ul><ul><li>invite phonenumber </li></ul><ul><li>#hashtag </li></ul>

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Direct messages

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Add friends

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Follow your friends <ul><li>Read your friends’ tweets via your Twitter homepage </li></ul><ul><li>Read via a client </li></ul><ul><li>Subscribe via RSS </li></ul><ul><li>Receive via IM </li></ul><ul><li>Receive tweets via SMS </li></ul><ul><li>Graphical </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Twittervision Twitter/Google Maps mashup </li></ul></ul>

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Uses <ul><li>Ultra simple blogging </li></ul><ul><li>Conferences </li></ul><ul><li>Reference Questions </li></ul><ul><li>News </li></ul><ul><li>Traffic </li></ul><ul><li>Weather </li></ul><ul><li>Presidential Campaigning </li></ul><ul><li>Web site updates </li></ul><ul><li>Conversations </li></ul><ul><li>Humor </li></ul><ul><li>Characters </li></ul>

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aadl

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NLC Reference

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BBC News

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Oregon Traffic

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Boston Weather

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Barack Obama

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“ Darth Vader”

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A Twitter conversation during the development of this slide show

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Searching Twitter Content

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Problems <ul><li>Twitterference So many SMS tweets that you can’t make a phone call. </li></ul><ul><li>If it ever goes away, your content is gone </li></ul><ul><li>Considered too distracting by some </li></ul><ul><li>If you don’t participate, you won’t get anything out of it </li></ul>

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7 TIPS TO A GOOD TWITTER EXPERIENCE <ul><li>Follow unto others </li></ul><ul><li>@comment others </li></ul><ul><li>Link to your stuff </li></ul><ul><li>Don’t take non-responses personally </li></ul><ul><li>Be patient </li></ul><ul><li>Avoid addiction </li></ul><ul><li>Use your name </li></ul><ul><li>Source: http://meryl.net/2008/04/01/7-tips-to-a-good-twitter-experience/ </li></ul>

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http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/000932.html

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Contact Information <ul><li>Michael Sauers Technology Innovation Librarian, Nebraska Library Commission </li></ul><ul><li>[email_address] </li></ul><ul><li>www.travelinlibrarian.info </li></ul><ul><li>twitter.com/msauers </li></ul><ul><li>Christa Burns OCLC Member Services Librarian, </li></ul><ul><li>NEBASE / Nebraska Library Commission </li></ul><ul><li>[email_address] </li></ul><ul><li>christajoy.blogspot.com </li></ul><ul><li>twitter.com/cjburns </li></ul>