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Presentation for Madison County Librarians and Reading Specialists, May 18, 2012.TRANSCRIPT
Wendy Stephens@wsstephensBuckhorn High SchoolNew Market, Alabama
Tap Into….
http://tinyurl.com/MCtapintotwitter
Alabama Library AssociationMay 18, 2012
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a6/Water_spigot.jpg
ambient awareness
Why 140 characters?odeo.com: “a dispatch service that connects
our phones via text”@jack – March 21, 2006
SXSWi
Rapid sharing
Anatomy of a Tweetavatar user name 140 characters = message body
RT = retweet
# = hashtag
@ = mention
time stamp software used
Anatomy of a twitter feedReal name
Twitter handle
Location
Bio
Following
Followers
Following avatars
RSS!
Avatar
Listed
Starred tweets
Your lists
Your tools
Tweet count
About the RTCitation, 21st Century StyleManual versus Twitter’s Integrated Retweeting
When you manually RT, you can edit, add comments
Twitter’s RT indicated by the recursive arrow iconUsing Twitter’s RT, you can’t edit or add commentsYou DO see how many others have RTed it
Note the bit.ly urlURL shorteners are a must when tweeting
Dialogue: About the @
a reply or a mention
starts the conversaton
you don’t have to follow someone to see their @ reply or @ reply to them
If someone is following both you AND the other tweep, they will see the dialogue in their timeline
versus
Don’t want to manage two web presences?Twitter can update FB, FB can update Twitter
OpenPublicRallyNo permission to view (usually)
Facebook status update and Twitter both a form of microblogging, but….
ClosedInvitation-onlyPartyPermission required
You can follow people on twitter without posting your own tweets…
Can be from your phone – via text to 40404 or app
FOLLOW username Start following a user
UNFOLLOW username Stop following a user
ON/OFF Turn all Tweet notifications on or off
ON/OFF username Set Tweet notifications for a user on or off (you'll still be following them even if you set it to off)
GET username Shows you the latest tweet from any user
RT username Retweet a user's latest tweet
FAV username Favorite a user's latest tweet
D username your-message Send a direct message to a user
Texting 40404 and the following commands allows you to….
Blogs & calendars can be set to auto-tweet
Twitter can be closed -- DMs
DMs can come to your phone
DMs can come to your email
Twitter can be private
on tweep’s page
on timeline
the padlock
2010
2010
Teri Lesenehttps://twitter.com/#!/professornana Jim Burkehttps://twitter.com/#!/englishcomp Kylene Beershttp://twitter.com/#!/kylenebeers Search for Authors, Publishers, Libraries, School Library Journal bloggers, NCTE, ALAN on twitter
Anyone with using the #bookaday hashtag
Building YOUR Own Twitter PLN
Wendy Stephens@wsstephensBuckhorn High SchoolNew Market, Alabama
Tap Into….
http://tinyurl.com/MCtapintotwitter
Alabama Library AssociationMay 18, 2012
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a6/Water_spigot.jpg