8. Home page or Blog site
Bio
160 Characters
Picture
Username
Twitter handle should be your name and not very long. Note: we didn’t follow our own rule.
Bios should be unique and express your personality.
9. • 140 characters ONLY
• 22 Left
• Shorten hyperlinks
• Add a Hashtag so it can be
found
Original tweets can be thoughts from something you’ve read, notes from an event you are
attending, a tip to share, from a blog post, from a website, summarize key content.
NOT what you ate for lunch.
10. Original Tweet
Link shortened
Retweet
Retweet
Hashtag
Retweet
Symbol
from Twitter
Always acknowledge original tweeter(s).
It’s OK to shorten, modify or add to the original tweet when retweeting.
11. Direct Message
Syntax = d username
No @ symbol
Can’t DM someone if they don’t follow you.
They MUST follow you.
12. Public
Conversation
Mention
When you use the @ and a username in a Tweet, this means you are publicly talking to that
person on Twitter or mentioning them. So don’t say anything you wouldn’t want grandma to hear!
13. If you get the fail whale, try Twitter in a couple of minutes.
14. Don’t EVER, we mean EVER tweet something you shouldn’t have. Technically you can delete it,
BUT if someone retweets your tweet or takes a screen capture, you’re in BIG TROUBLE.
16. Tweet content that you get from your subscription e-mails, retweet others’ tweets, tweet notes
When you are at an event (hint hint #ILTA11), tweet blog posts, tips, tricks, and trips!
18. Posting
(uploading)
Pictures
You can upload a picture to Twitter from any mobile device. It shrinks the picture and attaches
a link, so when users click on the link, it displays the picture. Amazing.
Image source: http://www.teehunter.com/images/tweetingthistee.jpg
19. You can upload a picture to Twitter from any mobile device. It shrinks the picture and attaches
a link, so when users click on the link, it displays the picture.
20.
21. Social Media
Management
(Hootsuite & TweetDeck)
Image source: http://operationwebtools.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/hootsuite-logo.png
22. Hootsuite is web-based, FREE, available on your mobile device and allows you to manage more
than one social media account. That’s right. Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn can all be managed
from one dashboard.
27. Hashtags are like adding search terms to your tweets. They can appear anywhere in a tweet and
should not contain any spaces. It’s best to use only one hashtag and no more than three.
32. @txmischief & @legalerswelcome
tweet u at conference
#ThankYou #ILTA11 #FF
We better hear you tweeting and following us at conference. We’ll be listening and tweeting
with all of you, so let us know if you need any help or have questions! Remember #ilta11
If you’re not tweeting, then you’re not really at #ilta11. Get on Twitter.
