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This is a short presentation I did for my class IST 561 Internet and Information Access @SUNY Albany. I was talking to a room of graduate students (Information Science). Not one of which uses Twitter. My goal was to introduce the utility of Twitter in Academia and Librarianship. Thanks to Max Wilson and Joe Murphy for being my exemplar examples.
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TWITTER:To Tweet or Not
to Tweet…By Catherine L. Dumas
IST 561 SUNY Albany 11/10/2010
WHAT IS TWITTER? Social networking and micro-blogging service Founded by Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone & Evan
Williams in March 2006 (launched publicly in July 2006)
o Allows users to post their latest updates - limited by 140 characters
Updates are posted through web form, text
message, or instant message. Over 190 billion visitors monthly - FB 500 million
active users Twitter: "a short burst of inconsequential
information," & "chirps from birds." Jack Dorsey
TERMINOLOGY Following: you follow people you are
interested in Tweet: an individual message @username: start a message with this -
link to the person you want to tweet to DM, or direct message: Private tweets no
one else can read but you RT, or retweet: share cool ideas, shout-out
to people you respect Trending Topics: Most mentioned terms on
Twitter at that moment – break news ahead of mainstream media
Hashtag (#): fields created by users to categorize messages (eg #ASIST2010) – ALA -hashtags
Tweetup: in-person gathering organized via Twitter – spontaneous
Shortened URLs: Twitter automatically shortens long URL’s - so they fit
Yeah, so how does Twitter work?
o Twitter in Plain English
@Cathy2cool
Tweetdeck
CATHY2COOL’S “TWEETDECK”
WHAT DO PEOPLE TWEET?
Content of Tweets according toPear Analytics
■ News■ Spam■ Self-promotion■ Pointless babble■ Conversational■ Pass-along value
Dr. MAX WILSON, Prof, Swansea Univ. UK TWITTER IN ACADEMIA
o Why Max Tweets
o “To engage with my international research community” “To bounce ideas, or things that are too small to blog
about yet” “To share new publications of mine, as they get
accepted” “To keep up with buzzes in my research areas
Max’s Advice for New Tweeter’s
Start seeing who the major peeps in your research area are tweeting, see what they are tweeting about
Start responding to them with intelligent comments/questions
Start tweeting intelligent, research oriented things yourself and hopefully have them comment on you.
THE INNOVATIVE LIBRARIAN I MET AT ALA THIS SUMMER, WHO GOT ME
INTERESTED IN TWITTER
Joe Murphy, Science Librarian, Yale
So, to Tweet or Not to Tweet?
Are there any other questions?
The End
REFERENCES
http://commoncraft.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddO9idmax0o
http://business.twitter.com/twitter101/learning
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Content_of_Tweets.svg
http://twitter.com/gingdottwit http://twitter.com/@cathy2cool http://joemurphylibraryfuture.com/326/