twitter:an introduction

Kathy E. Gill@kegill

6 April 2009

What Is Twitter?

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A New Genre•D versus @ versus RT

•Follow versus Friend

•Favorites

•Broadcast (one-way) versus Converse (two-way)

•Nibble v Full Course

•Many v Few

•TinyUrl et al

Getting Started•Web Browser

•Twhirl

•Tweetdeck

•Cellphone (of course)

How to Follow•Based on use

•Thought Leaders

•Wire Feeds

•Friends

•Interesting people

More Tools•TwitPic

•SocialToo

•FriendFeed

•Ping.FM

Twitter Is Social.

Have fun!

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Kathy E. Gill• http://faculty.washington.edu/kegill or @kegill, @kegill_uw

• http://wiredpee.com/ and http://slideshare.net/kegill

Images: • Twitter.com logo

• Toolbox, http://www.autotoys.com/x/product.php?productid=7087

• Megaphone, http://warkscol.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/superchick_megaphone_logo_hi.jpg