2. QUICK BACKGROUND FACTS
Started on March 21, 2006 under a company called Odeo, by
Jack Dorsey
Jack Dorsey wanted to create a new idea that would allow
anyone to create a short message that would allow people to
communicate with small groups of people
In 2007 Twitter became its own company
Twitter is estimated to have 2.5 million users
65,000,000 tweets are posted a day
Twitter has grown to become one of the most top ten visited sites
Today twitter is one of the most powerful tools in social media for
people to use to communicate with one another in such a short
message
3. 5 POWERFUL WAYS TO USE TWITTER
According to Dustin Brady who wrote an article about 5 powerful ways
to use Twitter in Higher Education
Listen and Reply –Read what people are saying but think before
replying to what they wrote (participate in conversation)
Introduce Real People at Your School-not only talking to people on
twitter, get out and promote more people on campus to use twitter
Participate in the Backchannel- During events at your school create
hashtags to attract more people to event that may be going
Information Updates- Letting people know what is going on simply just
like the news
Personal Enrichment-using your personal twitter to get the word out if
people aren’t receiving it from the school’s twitter account
4. WHY PEOPLE GENERALLY FOLLOW OTHERS ON TWITTER
They are looking for a benefit
They are looking for information
They want customer service
They want entertainment
They want relationship
5. MOST USED ON TWITTER
What is a tweet? A tweet is a message posted on twitter of 140
characters
Retweet (RT)-Helps you to quickly share a tweet with your followers
Direct message (DM)-private message between you and the sender
Follow-subscribing to a person’s tweets or updates
Followers-when a person has followed you
Unfollow- when you don’t follow someone anymore and you no longer
see what they tweet
Hashtag (#)- Symbol to mark important topics (ex. #FF-FollowFriday)
Timeline (TL)-A list of your tweets and the people you follow on twitter
Reply- you can click the reply button located under a person’s tweet
to respond to what there tweet is
Profile-Twitter account displaying information about the user and
tweets they post
Protected/Private tweets-your tweets can only be shown to people
who you allowed to follow you
Over capacity- when twitter is over capacitated meaning-too many
people are on twitter
6. MOST USED ON TWITTER CONTINUED
Mention (@)- when others put the “@” with your username
Trending topic- popular topics that are talked about
Follow count- How many people you follow or how many followers you
have
Twitter jail- you can’t tweet anymore until someone frees you because
you posted a 100 tweets per hour or 1000 tweets per day
Favorites-Tweets that a user likes a lot
Bio-A personal description used to show who you are located on your
profile
@-used to call out usernames in tweets
Twitpic-a picture that you took and put with a tweet
8. NOW LET’S TRY TO USE TWITTER
I have created a twitter account specifically for this
workshop that I will use to show you how to navigate
around twitter
My twitter username is called @Tworkshop21532
Password is Bobcats21532
We will learn how to post tweets, add a profile picture,
find people, go through privacy settings, send
messages, follow people, look up hashtags, view
profiles, and see trending topics
So Let’s try !
9. LET’S PLAY A GAME
Let’s match the tweet with a celebrity
@ringzington and I Spent 4 hours mixing the snare
drum for this new song...
Bruno Mars
Eminem
Kesha
Brittney Spears
13. cant help but smile. thank u to everyone who
ever cared. very grateful. anything is possible.
#neversaynever
Selena Gomez
Miley Cyrus
Taylor Swift
Justin Biber
19. HOOTSUITE
HootSuite is like another social network, it allows people to connect to
multiple networks from one website
You can schedule to post updates on Twitter, Facebook, and other
social networks
HootSuite is like a a media dashboard
Let’s learn how Frostburg uses HootSuite!
20. Questions
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Answers ? www.twitter.com
5 Powerful ways to use twitter in
higher education
by Dustin Brady
