2. What are YOU doing?
What has your attention?
What is Twitter?
A social media tool that allows users
to share what’s going on in their lives
and careers in 140 characters or less
What’s Happening?
3. Why use Twitter?
Connect with friends, family,
colleagues
Access real time news feeds
Have a question? Get an
answer from other
professionals
Find links to ed resources
Search topics of interest
Share what’s on your mind,
your activities, your interests
Have fun! Connect to famous
5. What exactly is
a tweet?
Click on user name to see their other posts
Sender’s Profile
Picture
Sender’s User Name Message and date
and Real Name
A 140 character message May include links to outside resources
6. How Do I Join Twitter?
www.twitter.com
Click
Enter your name, a user name, a
password, and an email account
Then click “Create my account”
7. @techieteacher
n @jimmybuffett
@ neiltyso
@national
speaker Famous
People
Professional @UDL_center
ISUAdmissions
Contacts
@brookfield_zoo
@mom
@friend
@nasa Places/
Organizations
@teacher across
Friends &
the hall
Family
Next: Follow Someone!
8. You see their tweets They see your tweets Don’t tweet in
a void
Type in the name of a
person, business,
organization, or show
Twitter will give you
recommendations
based on who you
already follow
9. Composition box
How Do I
Send a Tweet?
# of characters you have left
Click to send
Answer the “What’s happening? question
on your home screen or click the “new
tweet” button from anywhere within
Twitter.
10. Once you start
following people,
you will start to
see all their tweets
mixed together in
a stream.
Tweets in chronological order,
newest on top
11. •Set yourself a time Too much info, not
limit!Don’t try to read enough time!
every tweet!
•Click on a user name
to see just that person’s
tweets
•Do a search for a
specific topic
•Organize the people
your following into lists
12. Create You can set up a list from
either your home page or
lists as a time profile page by selecting the
lists tab and then selecting
saver “create a list”.
View all the people your following by selecting the following tab on your
profile page. Then, select each, click the lists button, and check
the list you want to place that person’s tweets in.
13. RT DM
Direct message someon
e
specific. Private message
.
Retweet someone else’s tweet
to send it to all your followers
Hover over a tweet and click the “retweet” From message tab
link or copy the tweet and put RT before
the original sender’s name
14. Type into the search box
What do
you need to
know?
Narrow the results to “tweets with links” to find
additional online resources
15. What is a hashtag?
Hashtags can be used in
a tweet to identify
a tweet with a specific
topic or group. You
can also search using a
hashtag to find all
tweets that reference t
hat topic.
