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How to Join a Twitter Chat

Read the right slides for you!• Are you familiar with twitter?– Got to slide 8!

• Are you new to twitter?– Go to next slide!

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

• 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

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Write your tweet in this box, then press the blue Tweet button

Learn how to @reply and RTAn @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.

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.

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 #

We will be using a # for our Twitter Chats, a # allows us all to follow a specific subject , do a search for #carmsecurity

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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

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……

Thankyou@carmsecurity