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Twitter: What can you do in 140 characters or less? COM 160: New Communications Technologies

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Page 1: Twitter: What can you do in 140 characters or less?

Twitter: What can you do in 140 characters or less?

COM 160: New Communications Technologies

Page 2: Twitter: What can you do in 140 characters or less?

Twitter• a website, owned and operated by Twitter Inc.,

which offers a social networking and microblogging service which enables its users to send and read other users' messages called tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the user's profile page.

• Microblogging: a passive broadcast medium in the form of blogging; differs from a traditional blog in that its content is typically much smaller, in both actual size and aggregate file size.

• A microblog entry could consist of nothing but a short sentence fragment, an image or embedded video.

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Features of Twitter• Twitter is an information network

made up of 140-character messages called Tweets. It's a new and easy way to discover the latest news (“what’s happening”) related to subjects you care about.

• reading Tweets and discovering new information whenever you check in on your Twitter timeline is where you’ll find the most value on Twitter

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Following• Twitter’s feed is like

having a newspaper delivered to you, with only headlines you care about.

• Find businesses, celebrities, friends, news organizations and FOLLOW them to receive real-time information; see what feeds your friends follow

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Features

• Real-time information: to optimize your Twitter experience, check it often. Information is sent instantly, and in a real-time timeline.

• Go Mobile: Total mobile users has jumped 62% since mid-April, 16% of all new users to Twitter start on mobile now, and 46%of active users make mobile a regular part of their Twitter experience. (Twitter.com)

• Instructions on how to get Twitter on your phone

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Basic Twitter Terms• ReTweet (RT): re-posting someone else’s

tweet to your followers• Hashtags (#): helps add tweets to a

category; have the 'hash' or 'pound' symbol (#) preceding the tag, like so: #traffic, #followfriday, #hashtag. Hashtags can occur anywhere in the tweet: some people just add a # before a word they're using, or at the end of the tweet.

• Mentioning: To mention a user, or direct a tweet at a certain person add @ before the person’s username. @com160gcc, awesome #class today at #gcc

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Basic Twitter Terms• Lists: Curated groups of other Twitter users. Used

to tie specific individuals into a group on your Twitter account. Displayed on the right side menu of your homepage. Learn more about lists.

• 3rd Party Application: A third-party application is a product created by a company other than Twitter and used to access Tweets and other Twitter data. Find out how to get help with an application.

• Unfollow: To cease following another Twitter user. Their Tweets no longer show up in your home timeline. Learn how to unfollow.

• Widget: A bit of code that can be placed anywhere on the web. Updates regularly with one's Twitter updates in real time.

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Advanced Features• Adding photo and video to t

weets• You must sign up with 3rd

party applications to send multimedia (other than text) tweets. Twitter.com does not natively support image and video tweets

• Integrate Twitter with Facebook, blog, or website.

• Create lists to manage your feeds and to send directed tweets