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Using Twitter. S kills : familiarity with the Twitter user interface and major features, the # hashtag and @-sign, and search C oncepts : evolution of Twitter applications and access modes, citizen journalism, trending topics and finding people as well as information. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Skills: familiarity with the Twitter user interface and major features, the #hashtag and @-sign, and search Concepts: evolution of Twitter applications and access modes, citizen journalism, trending topics and finding people as well as information
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Using Twitter
Where does this topic fit?
• Internet concepts– Applications– Technology– Implications
• Internet skills– Application development– Content creation– User skills (Twitter)
Not just personal friends
Twitter, a micro blogging service
http://www.twitter.com/
My profile page, with class feed
http://www.twitter.com/larrypress
Mark, re-tweet or reply
@username: specify a particular Twitter user
Hashtag: retrieve posts on a given topic
Two special characters
Search for #Jan25
@username
Trending topics – citizen journalism
Finding people with common interests
Twitter’s evolution2006-20012
Twitter’s evolution2006-20012
Accounts are free
Play time
Summary
Self-study questions
1. There are four tabs at the top of the Twitter Web site. What is the difference between the “Home” and “Profile” pages?
2. What is the purpose of the “Who to Follow” page?3. We did not cover the “Messages” tab – how is it used?4. How are the at sign (@) and hash character (#) used in the Twitter
community?5. What are the trending topics right now in Los Angeles? Check an hour
later. Have they changed?6. Are the trending topics in Los Angeles the same as the trending topics
in New York? London?7. The following slide has links to two versions of the same presentation:
a video and a “Prezi.” Which do you like best?8. When you send someone a tweet that begins with @username, does it
appear in your tweet stream, theirs or both?9. What is the difference between a tweet that begins with @username
and one that has @username in the middle?
• Twitter support: https://support.twitter.com/
• A video introduction to Twitter:http://derekbruff.com/talks/twitter101lilly.swf
• A “Prezi” of the above video:http://prezi.com/woab_ix3hvt0/twitter-101-for-the-2010-pod-network-conference/
• Book about the use of Twitter in business by tech journalist Julio Ojeda-Zapata:http://yourtech.typepad.com/twitinbiz/
• Interview of Juilio Ojeda Zapata on his use of Twitter as a journalist (audio and transcript).http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2008/08/22/06
• Introduction to Twitter in business:http://business.twitter.com/
• Twitter search in plain English (3m 19s video):http://commoncraft.com/twitter-search
• Talk by Clay Shirky, which includes examples of Twitter in citizen journalism:http://cis275topics.blogspot.com/2010/09/how-social-media-can-make-history.html
• Interview of Twitter co-founders on their backgrounds, Twitter evolution and plans for the future:
http://cis275topics.blogspot.com/2010/09/evolution-and-impact-of-twitter.html
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