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Dr. Katrin Weller
TWITTER FOR INFORMATION
@kwelle
weller@uni-duesseldorf.de PROFESSIONALS
Online Information 2011
London 10 Tips for Efficient Use of Microblogging
01. December 2011

Twitter
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Who needs it, who doesn‘t?
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Networking & Observing &
Communicating Monitoring
Broadcasting Organising &
& Reporting Sharing

Networking & Communicating
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Tip 1
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Care for your profile

Tip 2
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It‘s not all about the
numbers

It‘s not all about the numbers…
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 Tweetstats.com
 Klout
 Twitalyzer
 Twittercounter
 …

Monitoring & Observing
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Tip 3
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Don‘t be afraid of
missing something

Tip 4
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Use tools for keeping
track of what‘s
happening

Tweetdeck
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Other Tools
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Co-tweeting * follower recommendation * automatic tweets *
twitterwalls * data visualization * URL monitoring * follower
visualization * communities * hashtag meanings * trends

Tip 5: Searching
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Tip 6: Archiving
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 Via RSS feed (e.g. google reader, thunderbird)
 Your Twapperkeeper

Broadcasting & Reporting
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Tip 7
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Be yourself – but also
imagine your audience

Tip 8
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Respect the etiquette

Organising & Sharing
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Tip 9
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Make your tweets
„sharable“

Finally: don‘t expect miracles
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Thank you for your attention!
Katrin Weller
Dept. of Information Science
Heinrich-Heine-University
Düsseldorf
e-mail: weller@uni-duesseldorf.de
Twitter: @kwelle
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