Twitter

A DotDolfin.com Production Twitter Talk Michael Rees School of IT What is Twitter?  Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users’ updates (otherwise known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length http://dotdolfin.com for more details Twitter Talk 2  See 3 July 2009 Twitter Features       140-character limit Sent/received from web, client or mobile Create a set of followers Send replies Send direct messages Open API 3 July 2009 Twitter Talk 3 Where does Twitter sit? 3 July 2009 Twitter Talk 4 Twitter.com 3 July 2009 Twitter Talk 5 Twitter Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSHvikBuv3Y&eurl=http ://dotdolfin.com/twitter/twitter-on-video/ 3 July 2009 Twitter Talk 6 Twitter Badge  Choose photo carefully 3 July 2009 Twitter Talk 7 Sending Tweets    Regular tweets of 140 characters Replies: start with @username Direct 1-to-1 messages: start with d username   Tag a tweet with a hashtag: #bushfires http://dotfolfin.com/twitter becomes a link 3 July 2009 Twitter Talk 8 Followers   Choose wisely About 150 max: Dunbar’s number 3 July 2009 Twitter Talk 9 The Twitterverse 3 July 2009 Twitter Talk 10 Twitter in Education Twitter for Academia        Class chatter both inside (if allowed) and outside: often only tangentially related Classroom community carries on into the real world A sense of the world: check the public tweet timeline but beware of obscene language Track a word: use Twitter search to follow discussion about a topic over time (word has to be relatively uncommon) Follow a professional or famous person: use Twitter search or actually follow them Get instant feedback: ask a question and often receive many answers quickly Public notepad: share ideas while planning, creating 3 July 2009 Twitter Talk 11 Twitter Practical  Sign up: see http://dotdolfin.com/twitter/starting-withtwitter/ Follow: BondClassFeb09 Follow your fellow classmates as they are known   3 July 2009 Twitter Talk 12 Wrap-up   Twitter has about 5 million users According to Martin Weller Twitter is:  A digital water cooler  A stream you dip into  A cocktail party  A virtual office  What knowledge management always wanted to be  Networking for Agoraphobics Twitter Talk 13 3 July 2009