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Open Access Week26 October 2016
Who we are
What we will coverWhat is Twitter?
The Basics
• What you can do with Twitter• Elements of Twitter• Setting up your account• #firsttweet and #twitter101• Building your network • Twitter for… you! • Challenges and Risks• Best practice: OER Hub • Go forth and tweet!
To tweet or not to tweet… by opensource.com (https://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/5364620846/in/faves-40959105@N00/) is licensed CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/)
What is Twitter?
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Microblogging
Twitter logo by Emilie Ogez (https://www.flickr.com/photos/eogez/3189795149/in/p) is licensed CC-BY-NC-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/)
Quick Twitter facts• First tweet in March 2006 and platform
launched in July 2006; • First # used in August 2007;• 1.3 billion Twitter accounts created since
Twitter launched;• 302 million “active users” of Twitter in 2015
and 310 million reported in April 2016; • 80% of Twitter users access platform via
their mobile.
References: https://www.brandwatch.com/2016/05/44-twitter-stats-2016/ and https://www.statista.com/chart/1520/number-of-monthly-active-twitter-users/
http://www.rosemcgrory.co.uk/2016/01/04/social-media-statistics-2016/
By Intel Free Press [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Internet_Minute_Infographic.jpg
Facebook, Twitter play different roles in connecting mobile readers to news via Pew Research Center Facttack: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/05/09/facebook-twitter-mobile-news/?u
Twitter by Esther Vargas (https://www.flickr.com/photos/esthervargasc/9774490844/in/faves-40959105@N00/) is licensed CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/)
The Basics
What you can do with Twitter
Is the influence of social media overhyped? by opensource.com (https://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/4752509641/) is licensed CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/)
Contribute to and Build Networks
Networked Teacher Diagram – Update by Alex Couros (https://www.flickr.com/photos/courosa/2922421696/in/photolist-5sfb9Y) is licensed CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/)
Share and Promote
Ask Questions / Phone a Friend
Give and Receive Feedback
Tell people what you’re
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Egypt tahrir square 2011 by AK Rockefeller (https://www.flickr.com/photos/akrockefeller/8341682053/) is licensed CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/)
All the LOLs
Elements of Twitter
Multiple Tweets Gradiant by mkhmarketing (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mkhmarketing/8476805037) is licensed CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
Your Handle / username
Your Name
Information about yourself/ your project (160 characters max)
Location / where you’re based WebsiteWhen you joined Twitter
Profile picture/logo
Notifications & Direct Messages
A Tweet Handle / User
Hashtag
Reply, retweet, like, tweet activity (inc. engagement)…
Profile pictures of people who ‘liked’ the tweet
Addressing another user
Setting up Your Account
…Because one is not enough by Caribb (https://www.flickr.com/photos/caribb/5259734742/) is licensed CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/)
#firsttweet & #twitter101
Screenshot of CIA Twitter account, source: https://www.mysocialsuite.com/blog/how-to-write-your-first-tweet?1902928516=2086365587
Building your network
_-_complexity [1] by nerovivo (https://www.flickr.com/photos/dominik99/384027019/) is licensed CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/)
Twitter for… YOU!
Twitter by Pete Simon (https://www.flickr.com/photos/petesimon/3365095019/in/faves-40959105@N00/) and is licensed CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
Challenges and Risks
Shouting Into the Void
Speak up, make your voice heard by Howard Lake (https://www.flickr.com/photos/howardlake/5540462170/in) is licensed CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/)
Finding your network
Network by Jurgen Appelo (https://www.flickr.com/photos/jurgenappelo/6797252840/) is licensed CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
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Here be monsters!
When things don’t go according to plan…
Source of Dorothy Perkins tweet: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/brexit-tweets_uk_576d1197e4b08d2c5639021e and http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/brexit-tweets_uk_576d1197e4b08d2c5639021e
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-37538391
Old cell phone pic #6 by Katjusa Cisar (https://www.flickr.com/photos/katjusac/5246392675/) is licensed CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
Privacy by g4II4is (https://www.flickr.com/photos/g4ll4is/8521624548/) is licensed CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/)
Finding your Voice
Zip mouth by David Davies (https://www.flickr.com/photos/davies/1163960/) is licensed CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/)
Distractions…
Our experience
Go forth and tweet!
Image courtesy of @OERLEGO: https://twitter.com/OERLEGO/media
Other resources• Getting started with Twitter: https://support.twitter.com/articles/
215585 • The Twitter Glossary: https://support.twitter.com/articles/166337 • Demonstrating the Power of Twitter:
https://learntechgalway.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/demonstrating-power-of-twitter.html
• A big pile of useful UK social media stats you’ll like from ONS: http://comms2point0.co.uk/comms2point0/2016/8/23/a-big-pile-of-useful-uk-social-media-stats-youll-like
• ONS presentation Social media in the UK: http://www.slideshare.net/statisticsONS/social-media-use-in-the-uk-65266896?platform=hootsuite
• 5 facts about Twitter aged 10: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/03/18/5-facts-about-twitter-at-age-10/
• The Six types of Twitter conversation: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/02/20/the-six-types-of-twitter-conversations/
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