introduction to twitter for lions
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How LIONS can use Twitter? Create a club profile, useful tipsTRANSCRIPT
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• Social Media Lounge
• Social Media Seminars
• Social Media Forum
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Find us in the Social Media Lounge
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at the Hamburg Messe
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What is Twitter
How to start using twitter
Twitter software and apps
Real live examples
Case studies
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Concept
Text messages of up to 140 characters known as ‘tweets’
SMS of the internet
What are you doing?, What's happening?
Virtual presence
REAL TIME INFORMATION !
- Google has to index the information.
- On Twitter information is immediately available
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Fact and figures
500 million active users (2012)
340 million tweets daily
1,6 billion search queries per day
Top 10 of most visited websites
Real time information
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Fact and figures - Usage
Peaks usage spikes during prominent events
Direct marketing
Cited as an important factor in the ‘Arab Spring’ and
other political protests
Emergency communication system for breaking news
Interactive TV
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What is Twitter
How to start using twitter
Twitter software and apps
Real live examples
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How to start using twitter
Create a twitter account
twitter dictionary
Do’s and dont’s
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You start as an Egg
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Goto ‘www.twitter.com’
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Find people you know
Skip this step
First learn how twitter works
Can be done in future
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Account settings
If you skip this step you will stay an egg!
A picture makes it more personal
A picture is worth a thousand words
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Your twitter account
is ready to be used
A confirmation mail is sent to your email adress
Makes sure you confirm the mail before using twitter!!! (just click the link)
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Your profile twitter page
Your personal tweets
Following/Followers/Favorites/Lists
Personalized background
Public
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Your personal twitter page
Account settings
Change Password
Set Email notifications
Profile (picture, Personal info, Bio)
Design (set background,,,)
,,,
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Account settings
Default OFF
If ON, tweets are private and only for approved followers
If ON, Tweets can not be search
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Email notifications
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Profile
Write a Bio
Automatically post your tweets on Facebook
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Your First TWEET
Write a message
Add a picture
Add your current location
TWEET
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Start using twitter
Create a twitter account
twitter dictionary
Do’s and dont’s
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twitter dictionary
ReTweet
Replies and Mentions @
Hashtag #
Direct message
,,,
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ReTweet
Someone else's Tweet that you chose to share
with all of your followers.
Use the built-in retweet feature
Manually retweet content by copying and pasting
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Hashtags (# Symbol)
To categorize tweets
Twitter search
Clicking on a Hashtag shows you all messages
marked with that keyword
Hashtagged words can become Trending topics.
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Replies and Mentions (@ Symbol)
Reply: when ‘reply’ button is used, message will
start with @Username
Mentions: @Username in the body (one or more)
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twitter basics
More information on:
https://support.twitter.com/groups/31-twitter-basics
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Start using twitter
Create a twitter account
twitter dictionary
Do’s and dont’s
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DO Start to tweet
Start following more people
Get people to follow you
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DO Choose a good Twittername
Complete your profile
Think before you tweet
Retweet & Mention (@)
Follow people you find interesting
Reply to tweets you find interesting
Check it regulary
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Choose a good Twittername
SMiLE, sounds nice but in use EVERYWHERE
@Lions_SMiLE covers the content
DO
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DONT Adding all your contacts
Use it as a popularity contest
Auto follow new followers
Spam Hashtags
use to many Mentions
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DONT Spam Hashtags
Don’t #spam #with #hashtags to get in
#twitter #TrendingTopics.
Don’t over-tag a single Tweet. (Best practices
recommend using no more than 3 hashtags per
Tweet.)
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DONT Use to many Mentions
Good work @HarryB @TomV @SylvieL @LudwigB...
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What is Twitter
How to start using twitter
Twitter software and apps
Real live examples
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twitter Apps and mobile
twitter for PC
twitter for iOS (iPhone, iPad, Mac)
twitter for Android
twitter for Blackberry
twitter for Nokia
twitter mobile site (mobile.twitter.com)
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twitter software
tweetdeck (Search and follow multiple accounts)
Twitterfeed (Feed your blog to twitter)
TwitPic
TwitVid
Many more
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tweetdeck
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tweetdeck
Write tweets
Your timeline
search columns
As many columns as you want
,,,
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What is Twitter
How to start using twitter
Twitter software and apps
Real live examples
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New York plane crash: Twitter
breaks the news, again
US Airways flight 1549, january 2009
First recored tweet Only 4 minutes after the plane crash
15 minutes before the mainstream media
First picture was on Twitpic
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Most ever retweeted tweet
810,000+ Retweets
200,000+ favorites
Before he took the stage to affirm
his election victory, President Obama
marked his win via Twitter
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Twitter wall Filter on #hashtag (eg #lcihamburg)
Tweet comments to audience
Tweet information /
news to followers
Need for moderation…
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Twitter wall Can be used to interact with the audience during a
convention
Can be used to broadcast what’s happening right now
Can be used to replace or support the Q&A
Can be used to attract attendees to an event because
of the positive tweets
Can be just fun at big events during waiting time
(festivals etc)…
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Hashtag examples #lcihamburg
#weserve
#lionssmile
#smileforum
#lionseverywhere
#lionsclubs…
Share new hashtags on Twitter
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Twitter for an event
Create a unique hashtag to talk about the event
Start tweeting about the events (others link and
contents)
Engage your audience (ask them questions, reply to
them, mentions the ones posting, retweet)
Initiate a live tweet by asking attendees to post
about the event
Use a twitterwall
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Twitter for a LCI Official
Create a hashtags to centralize (#DG403A #AskDGJohn)
Engage with audience by posting relevants tweets and
informations
Engage your audience (ask them questions, reply to
them, mentions the ones posting, retweet)
Tweet about locations and meetings
Promote his twitter account in his presentations, mail,
letterheads
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Usefull links Public Google drive folder (QR Code) Contains this presentation
bit.ly/11QvSFB
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https://support.twitter.com/
https://support.twitter.com/groups/31-twitter-basics
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Danke . Thanks . Merci
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