The fundamentals you’ll need to knowThe fundamentals you’ll need to know
Twitter is an information network. Millions of people, organizations, and businesses use it to
discover and share new information.
• 370,000 new sign-ups daily • 95,000,000 Tweets per day • 175,000,000 registered user
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• Mention (or @ ‘at’ reply)• Retweet (old & new)• Message (or DM)• Hashtag
• Twitterverse• Failwhale• Tweeple• FF or Follow Friday• Tweet chat
• Reach a large audience• Gain new following• Find sources• Find news• Direct access to politicians, celebrities,
athletes
• Twitter Lists• Twitter Applications• Alerts
• There is so much information, you can’t possibly hear through the noise
• Twitter Lists let you categorize and organize people you follow Consider Twitter lists for• politicians who tweet• Journalists that cover a certain beat• Topical keyword lists
• http://twitter.com/GCITweets/gannett-sports
Journalism-Centric
• Twitter.com• Tweetdeck• Seesmic• Hootsuite
Twitter.com
Tweetdeck
Seesmic Desktop
Hootsuite
Twitter for iPhone Tweetdeck for iPhone Seesmic for iPhone
• Topify• Pu.ly• Nutshellmail• Tweetbeep• AlertThingy
Topify
Pu.ly
Nutshellmail
• http://search.twitter.com
Trending topics
• Listorious• Twellow• WeFollow• Twitter Chat Directory• Oneforty.com
Listorious
Twellow
WeFollow
Oneforty
• Sign up at Twitter.com• Do some searches• Follow some lists and/or create your own
• http://twitter.com/#!/verified/world-leaders• http://twitter.com/#list/CNN/anchors-and-
reporters• http://twitter.com/#!/politicians/• http://tweetcongress.org/• http://www.mediaontwitter.com/• http://www.breakingtweets.com/• http://www.twitterjournalism.com/
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