How to Troubleshoot Apps for the Modern Connected Worker
What the Heck is Twitter, and Why Should I Care?
1. What the heck is Twitter?
(And why should I care?)
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2. What we’ll cover
Twitter basics
Examples
Getting started
Tools that make it easier
Sample use: job search
Best practices
3. Portions are a remix:
Dan Cohen, Full Court
Press Communications
http://www.slideshare.net/dcstpaul/
twitter-for-us-2010
Twitter
http://business.twitter.com/twitter101
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4.
5. Twitter is….
Millions of individual
broadcasting networks –
built by the users
themselves
A new way to speak
directly to the people
you care about – and
that want to hear from
you
A giant and total time
suck away from what is
really important?
Adapted from Twitter for Us - FCPCommunications.com
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7. April 14,
2010
“Expect to see an emphasis on the scholarly and
research implications of the acquisition… it boggles my
mind to think what we might be able to learn about
ourselves and the world around us from this wealth of
data. And I'm certain we'll learn things that none of us
now can possibly conceive.”
9. A tweet is an individual message
To follow somebody is to subscribe to their
messages. This does not mean they will also follow
you.
A DM or direct message is a private message on
Twitter
RT or retweet is to repost a valuable message from
somebody else on Twitter and give them credit
Sometimes noted as “via” instead of RT
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10. @username is a public message to or about an
individual on Twitter
A hashtag—the # symbol followed by a term and
included in tweets—is a way of categorizing all the
posts on a topic
Shortened URLs. To fit links into the short messages,
Twitter shrinks some URLs down automatically.
Trending topics are the most-discussed terms on
Twitter at any given moment
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11. First step: "
Listen!
search.twitter.com "
Try searching "
for a few keywords
or topics"
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Commons license
12.
13. Search for a user or keyword(s)
RSS feed (read &
archive)
14. What do
you hear?
Q&A
Conversations
Developments
Research
Chit Chat
Campaigns
Meetings and Conference Info
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21. Is there a voice missing
from the discussion?
Is there information
missing?
What value can you
add?
Adapted from Twitter for Us - FCPCommunications.com
22. Ready to give it a try?
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26. Follow relevant accounts
Following somebody means
you’ve subscribed to their tweets
When you find a good candidate,
look under their picture for the
Follow button
Start small – follow five. Listen for a
while. Then follow five more.
Lists are also useful for finding/
creating groups on a specific
topic
Adapted from Twitter 101 for Business
37. Best practices
• Build relationships on Twitter
• Listen for comments about you
• Respond to comments and
queries
• Ask questions
• Post links to things people would
find interesting
Adapted from Twitter 101 for Business
38. Best practices
• Retweet messages you would
like to share
• Use a friendly, casual tone
• Don’t spam people
• Don’t tweet anything you
wouldn’t want your mother to
read…