What are you doing?What’s happening?

• microblogging • Facebook, Myspace, etc. have

microblogging features known as ‘status updates’.

• allows users to send brief text updates or micromedia such as photos or audio clips and publish them

• What are you doing? What’s happening?

• It’s all about communication within a network

What is it?

Some facts about

• Tweet = post status updates• Following and followers = your

network • @ddnar = reply to this person• D ddnar = send a direct message • RT = re-tweet someone else’s tweet• #protests or #xFactor = view

discussions around this topic

http://www.twitter.com

Update box

Public timeline/stream

network

favourites

trending #

search

Task 1: Set up your Twitter account• Go to www.twitter.com• Create an account• Choose a user name e.g. first

name_xx• Choose an avatar (picture to

represent you)• Start ‘follow’ other Twitter users• Start tweeting. You can tweet in 140

characters only, like a short sms

Task 2: Set up your settings

Protect your tweets

Carefully select the people you want to follow based on their interests/background

or

Go on follow recommendations from people you trust

Task 3: Followers and Following•Follow @MuseLearn•Follow your classmates•Follow Museum of London @MuseumofLondon

• Task 4: Use #oag1 in every tweet. #oag2=week 2, #oag3=week 3.

• • This will enable us to track our

discussions later

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Task 5: Hiroshima

Reply @ to one of others’ tweetsRT one tweet that you liked