2. Read the right slides for you!
• Are you familiar with twitter?
– Got to slide 8!
• Are you new to twitter?
– Go to next slide!
3. Join Twitter.
To participate in a Twitter chat, you have to be on
Twitter.
• Go to Twitter.com and sign up.
It’s free and all you need is a user name and
password.
Then Follow us @carmsecurity
If you are not on Twitter yet
4. • Twitter messages or “tweets” are 140-characters long in total.
• Click on the small blue box found on Twitter’s left-hand column
Learn to tweet
6. Learn how to @reply and RT
An @reply is a message you send to a specific person that everyone else on
Twitter can see too. It’s like talking to one person in a crowded room so other
people can eavesdrop on your conversation. RT stands for retweet, if you see
a message you want to share, simply press the RT Button
So type a tweet to say hello ,
add @carmsecurity and it will
appear in our feed, and be seen by anyone that follows us.
7. Send a DM. (Direct Message)
A direct message or DM is a private tweet that
only the person you’re sending to can see. You
can only DM someone who’s following you and
can only receive DMs from people you follow.
8. Understand what a chat is.
Chats are conversations on Twitter on a
specific , planned topic that happen at a
selected time and day or date.
Twitter chats are a bit like people
congregating at the same time to talk
about a subject, on Twitter.
Chats are based on the same 140-
character tweets you use for other
Twitter communications, including a
specific #
9. We will be using a # for our Twitter Chats, a # allows us all
to follow a specific subject , do a search for #carmsecurity
#
10. A hashtag chat is a way of organising a conversation so that
anyone on Twitter can follow, join, and contribute. It centres
around a single hashtag
Simply add to your Tweets and questions on each day.
17th June with Richard we will use #APTQ&A so to join in
please add this to your tweets on that day.
27TH June with Tony we will use #carmchat
How to use the # in a tweet
11. I am joining @carmsecurtity for the #APTQ&A Twitter chat on
June 17th at 11am save the date!
And remember to join us!
Now Tweet This to get started……