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Twitter.In.200.Words
1. Twitter in 200 words
Go to www.twitter.com/eacconference and click on the ‘Lists’ tab – select ‘Alberta’ from the drop down
menu that appears. This takesyou to Albertan editors that are following the @eacconference twitter
account and tuning-in to our message. If you select ‘YVR’, you will see the editors based in and around
Metro Vancouver that are following the conference tweets.
Hit ‘back’ on your browser and return to the @eacconference landing page. ‘Timeline’ will be selected as
default and shows tweets published by @eacconference chronologically.
Among them will be certain terms highlighted that are clickable: twitter names beginning with ‘@’,
words and phrases starting with ‘#’ or a URL.
A tweet might mention @eac_acr for example, which is the EAC national branch twitter account. Click
on the @eac_acr link and you will see its published tweets. If you click terms with a hashtag like
#speedmentoring, #editor or #EAC2011, a list of all the tweets that use those expressions appears. Think
of the hashtag as a label or a hook to hang related information – any tweets about speed mentoring can
be ‘tagged’ in this manner. The hashtag groups the tweet with others that bear a relation, facilitating
timely and prominent search results.