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Twitter for Researchers
Emma Thompson or...@LibraryEmma@LivUniLibrary (with others)
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Choose a name
• Not too long – makes it hard for others to retweet your messages
• Use capitals to break up your name @LivUniLibrary
• Photo/Logo essential
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Send some tweets
• A link to a website you find useful, “I’m just testing twitter” ...whatever
• People are more likely to follow you if you are an “active” user
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3. Follow!It’s not stalking, honest...
Follow colleagues, institutions, funders – the library... and see who they follow
Many will follow you back
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Managing Twitter
Create Columns for :
different accounts (personal and institutional)
search terms e.g. “sydney jones”
Hashtags for conferences, themes etc #phdchat
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Is Twitter increasing impact?“altmetrics”
Altmetric Bookmarklet for Chrome, FireFox and Safarihttp://www.altmetric.com/bookmarklet.php
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Could Social Media “buzz” increase citations?
Eysenbach GCan Tweets Predict Citations? Metrics of Social Impact Based on Twitter and Correlation with Traditional Metrics of Scientific ImpactJ Med Internet Res 2011;13(4):e123URL: http://www.jmir.org/2011/4/e123/doi: 10.2196/jmir.2012PMID: 22173204
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Hashtags
• Click to follow them e.g. #phdchat• Make your own – e.g. for a
conference• Sometimes used for emphasis
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Sharing Links
HootSuite, Tweetdeck and now Twitter.com shorten links automatically
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Over to you...
Create an account on http://www.twitter.com
• Search for Key Journals/Institutions/People in your area and follow
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Thanks...
image from twittermoma.jpg
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Want to know more?
LSE Social Media Blog http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2011/09/29/twitter-guide/
Prof. Dorothy Bishop, Oxford (Developmental Neuropsychology)
http://deevybee.blogspot.com/2011/06/gentle-introduction-to-twitter-for.html
More links and blogs:http://www.scoop.it/t/twitter-for-academics