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What’s all the Tweeting about?

What's all the Tweeting About?

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Lunch and Learn on Twitter basics 8.23.2012

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What’s all the Tweeting about?

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What is Twitter?

Twitter is an information network made up of 140-character messages called

Tweets

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150 Million Tweets

London 2012

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Inspire

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Inform

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Educate

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Entertain

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Using Twitter on Mobile/iPad

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Using Twitter on the Web

Profile Page

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Home Page

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Follow Your Interests

• # Discover–Search by stories, activity, Twitter

suggestions, email contact list, categories–On your favorite websites–Find Catholics at TweetCatholic.com

and #cathmedia

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Recognize Bots and SpammersNever follow someone who is an egg head unless you know them.

Never follow someone who has 0 followers and / or has tweeted 0 times

Never follow someone who replied to one of your tweets with a link:

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Listen and Learn the Language

• RT-re-tweet• #hashtag• D bishopburbige• @bishopburbidge• #FF Follow Friday

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Share from Websites

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Your Tweets

• Tweet links of interest to you• Be relevant to your followers• RT other people’s Tweets• @reply speaking directly to someone• .@reply someone but followers can see• Tweet images and video

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Tweet NOT

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Twitter Etiquette• Tweet as if at a cocktail party• Respond to others, be social• Give credit where credit is due• Don’t be Debbie Downer• Use proper English and punctuation • Don’t use Auto DM or auto follow tools• Use common sense• Tweet about things other than yourself• Stick to 140 or fewer characters• Limit exclamation points!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Third Party Applications

• HootSuite www.hootsuite.com• Tweet Deck www.tweetdeck.com• Seesmic https://seesmic.com/• Tweet Chat http://tweetchat.com/