How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Twitter
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This document discusses Twitter and provides tips for using it effectively. It describes Twitter as a social network for microblogging in 140 characters or less. It then discusses how Twitter can be used for learning, disseminating news, building relationships, and following what others are doing. The document provides ways to access Twitter and cautions against syncing social media accounts. It concludes by offering suggestions for building a network on Twitter and ways to maximize engagement, such as using hashtags and retweeting others.
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Twitter
- 1. SMUG How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Twitter Feb 2, 2012
- 2. What is Twitter? • Social Networking in 140 characters or less “aka microblogging” • 300 million users as of late 2011. • 300 million “Tweets” and 1.6 billion searches per day • At its best, it’s a two-way conversation
- 3. So what’s the point? • Learning • Disseminating news • Engaging with your • Building relationships peers, students, with colleagues, the audiences media, others Knowing What This Guy is Doing at Any Given Moment! Okay….not really. But he deserves some credit.
- 4. It’s not without Pratfalls
- 5. Pratfalls
- 6. Ways to Tweet • Twitter.com • A variety of apps for phone, tablet, and computer:Tweetdeck, Twirl, Seesmic, Twitterberry, Twitdroid, Twitterfon, Hootsuite and Twitter’s own mobile apps • Texting from your phone • Do not sync your social media accounts!!!!
- 7. Some Thoughts on Censorship • Twitter said it would “reactively withhold content from users in a specific country -- while keeping it available in the rest of the world.” • What exactly does that mean? Good Question • What does it mean for Higher Ed? We’ll have to watch for implications for International Students/Faculty/Programs
- 8. Build a Network* • It’s only as good or as useful as the network you build • Start following people with similar interests • Converse with them • See who they follow • Keep doing it *Ideas from @rachelreuben
- 9. But I don’t have anything interesting to say!!! OF COURSE YOU DO!!!!
- 10. What should I be tweeting? • Depends on your account personal or dept. • News • Links to topical articles for your field • Interesting books you’re reading • A conference you’re going to • Live tweet an event/game/lecture/conference • Hold a Twitter Town Hall? Twitter Office Hours?
- 11. A supplement to your courses • Changes your dynamic in your class • Create a course hashtagie, #ECON432 • Post a question about class reading, encourage discussion, post a link that relates to classwork • Answer Student Questions
- 12. Ways to Maximize your Tweeting • Use #hashtags. #brockport or #ROC • www.brockport.edu/q or other link shortener • Retweet others if you like what you see: RT • Hold a contest: we gave away mugs. • Create and follow lists. – @brockportnews/campus-twitterers
- 13. SPAM • Direct Message Spam “Check out this picture, I think it’s you!”
- 14. Finding a balance • Don’t overdo it – Don’t post every thought – Don’t spam • Don’t underdo it – Don’t ignore the account – Answer any inquiries in a timely fashion • Engage, Interact, Explore • Take a breath before you Tweet.
- 15. Brockport on Twitter • @brockportnews • @brockport • @ellswortheagle • @bsgbuzz • More at www.brockport.edu/connect