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An Introduction to Twitter in Higher Education
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Who am I?
Alex SpiersLearning Technology Developer
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Overview
What is it?Terminology
How it is being used?Issues
ActivitiesQuestions
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Happy 6th Birthday
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https://clt.vtc.edu.hk/what-happens-online-in-60-seconds/ #LIVUNITEL
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https://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/opinion/tell-us-about-your-paper-and-make-it-short-and-tweet
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http://www.healthandcommunications.com/blog/2015/8/31/8utx8sait2y475x5wv11omlk6fsf9p
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Professional
Practice
Technology
Events/
ConferencesHE News
Breaking News
Research
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Tour, terminology & tasks
Ten Days of Twitter was originally developed by created by Helen Webster. The materials are available under a Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-SA.
1. Set up a profile
2. Following people
3. Sending a tweet
4. @messages
5. Embedding and shortening URLs
6. Retweeting
7. Hashtags
8. Managing people (apps to create lists)
9. Managing information (apps to curate links)
Setting up an account
Decisions you have to make
• Public or Private
• DM or Tagging from others
• Notifications
• Video autoplay (mobile)
Settings
Activity
• Search for content
#ff Follow FridayFollowing & Followers
Following & FollowersFollowing is trial and error – filter your followers (or interests) regularly
Activity
• Search for content
Sending @ messagesSend a Tweet
Tweet
Activity
• Search for content
The @ sign is used to call out usernames in Tweets, like this:
@
Activity
• Search for content
Tweeting Links
Tweeting URLs
A URL of any length will be altered to 23 characters, even if the link itself is less than 23 characters long. Your character count will reflect this.
• Tinyurl.com
• Goo.gl Owned by Google this will also produce a QR code for your link and if you have a Google+ account, you can track statistics on click-through. This is useful if you’re evaluating publicity strategies for a new web resource or event.
• events.
• Bit.ly You can also track click-throughs with this site.
Activity
• Search for content
RetweetsRT (retweet)
Re-sharing or giving credit to someone else’s tweet. Quote tweet allows you to share another tweet and add comment about it.
RT (retweet)
Activity
• Search for content
#Hashtags# hash tag (search term)
# hash tag (search term)
Activity
• Search for content
Managing people in TwitterManaging People
BlockYou can Block anyone you don’t want to be following you. Blocking prevents a user from @ message, DM or adding you to a list. It
ListsYou can create a public or private list of people and accounts you are interested in. This helps you filter information.
Activity
• Search for content
Managing information in Twitter
• Favourites
• Search
• Trending
• Extras - flipboard
Managing information
Favourites/Likes
Adding a favourite tweet is similar to ‘like’ in Facebook and can be used to bookmark a tweet.
Polls & Gifs
Apps
Tweetdeck
Nuzzle
Activity
• Search for content
VITAL (Blackboard)
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https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/intranet/marketing-and-communications/pr-media-relations/social-media/
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Social Media for Academic Staff
• Introduction to Twitter in Higher Education
• Getting more out of Twitter: Tools, tips & tricks
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