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!

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What is Twitter?

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Microblogging

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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/

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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

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The Basics

What you can do with Twitter

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Contribute to and Build Networks

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Share and Promote

Ask Questions / Phone a Friend

Give and Receive Feedback

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Elements of Twitter

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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

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#firsttweet & #twitter101

Screenshot of CIA Twitter account, source: https://www.mysocialsuite.com/blog/how-to-write-your-first-tweet?1902928516=2086365587

Building your network

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Twitter for… YOU!

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Challenges and Risks

Shouting Into the Void

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Finding your network

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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

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Finding your Voice

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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/