What is Twitter?

1. What are you doing ?
What’s happening?

2. •microblogging
•Facebook, Myspace, etc. have
microblogging features known as
‘status updates ’.
•allows users to send brief text updates or
mic romedia such as photos or audio
clips and publish them
•What are you doing ? What’s
happening?
•It’s all about communication within a
network
What is it?

3. Some facts about
•Tweet = post status updates
•Following and followers = your network
•@ddnar = reply to this person
•D ddnar = send a direct message
•RT = re-tweet someone else’s tweet
•#protests or #xFactor = view discussions
around this topic

4. http://www.twitter.com

5. Update box
Public
timeline/stream

6. network
favourites
trending #

7. search

9. Task 1: Set up your Twitter account
•Go to www.twitter.com
•Create an account
•Choose a user name e.g. first name_xx
•Choose an avatar (picture to represent
you)
•Start ‘follow’ other Twitter users
•Start tweeting. You can tweet in 140
characters only, like a short sms

10. Task 2: Set up your settings

11. Protec t your tweets

12. Carefully select the
people you want to
follow based on their
interests/background
or
Go on follow
recommendations from
people you trust

13. Task 3: Followers and
Following
•Follow @MuseLearn
•Follow your classmates
•Follow Museum of London
@MuseumofLondon

14. •Task 4: Use #oag1 in every tweet.
#oag2=week 2, #oag3=week 3.
•
•This will enable us to track our
discussions later

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Task 5: Hiroshima
Reply @ to one of others’ tweets
RT one tweet that you liked