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
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Twitter Features
140-character limit
Sent/received from web, client or mobile
Create a set of followers Send replies Send direct messages Open API
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Where does Twitter sit?
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Twitter.com
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Twitter Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSHvikBuv3Y&eurl=http ://dotdolfin.com/twitter/twitter-on-video/
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Twitter Badge
Choose photo carefully
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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
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Followers
Choose wisely
About 150 max: Dunbar’s number
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The Twitterverse
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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
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Twitter Practical
Sign up: see http://dotdolfin.com/twitter/starting-withtwitter/ Follow: BondClassFeb09 Follow your fellow classmates as they are known
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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
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