2.  Following other twitter users is the best way
to have access to information and to build
your audience
 The more people you follow, the more people will
follow you!
 A good place to start is liking users associated
with Auburn University
 Then find users that are in your area of
interest
 In this case, agriculture

3.  User @FollowFarmer has a list of farmers and
“agvocates” that blog and tweet
 Go through their list of “Following” to find
other users you may want to follow
 This will give you access to their tweets in
your twitter feed
 You can take any information you like from these
tweets and retweet them to your followers

4. The best way to find people to
follow is to see who successful
twitter accounts are following.
Do this by going to a user’s profile
and clicking the “Following” link
Each user has a bio under their name. Skim
through the bios and determine if you would
like to follow them.
Following is as easy as clicking the “Follow”
button!

5.  Twitter is a fast paced social media tool
 Tweeting 3-5 times a day is recommended
 every post is time stamped, so daily tweeting is
essential to stay current
 Pushing posts from Facebook can help you
reach your 3-5 posts easily

6.  Use twitter to
 Make announcements
 Ask questions
 Brag about the college
 Provide information (fun facts, statistics, etc.)
 Link to press releases
https://twitter.com/UGA_CollegeofAg

7. “@” mentions links another
Twitter user within your
message. They can see you are
talking about them. Using “@”
can increase traffic to both
pages.
The @username is also a hyperlink that users
can click on to see a preview of that user’s
twitter feed.

8. 1. Announcement of College Event 1.
 possible link to press release
or order page
1. Announcement of State-wide 2.
event
3.
2. Bragging about the college 
link to photo 4.
3. Sharing fun facts with
interactive video
5.
4. Recap of speakers that came to
the college  link to full story

9. 1. Networking with another user 1.
with “@usernames” and
hashtags
2.
2. Interactive tweet  encourages
users to retweet 3.
3. Announcement of time sensitive
event
4.
4. Announcement of future event
with link
5.
5. Invitation to time sensitive event

10.  Take information from the web:
 Wire Eagle
 OAnews
 AgChat.org
 Ag Hill Update
 Summarize the information in 140 characters
or less
 Provide the link to the original website so
users can read more if they choose

11.  Mentioning other users (@username) and
using hashtags (#hashtags) in your tweets
can help bring traffic to your twitter feed
 This helps increase followers

12. The hashtag “#auburnag” is the
hashtag we want to use for
anything related to the college of
agriculture.
Hashtags create a database of
every tweet with that hashtag in
it.
The hashtag is
also hyperlinked,
so you can click
on it to see a feed
of only
#auburnag
tweets.

13.  In addition to writing your own tweets,
Twitter allows you to “retweet” what other
users have tweeted.
 This allows you to share a wide variety of
information with your followers.
 It also increases traffic to your twitter feed.

14.  There are two ways to retweet a post to your
followers
 Method 1 is an easier and quicker method
 Method 2 provides a way to retweet a post if
a user has privacy settings on their tweets

15. 1. When you put your cursor over
a tweet, it will become shaded
and the options of
•Expand
•Reply
•Retweet
•Favorite
will appear as a link.
2. When you click rewteet, this box will appear:

16. This green symbol
indicates a
retweeted post not
a post you wrote
yourself
The tweet is now part of your feed to your followers, even though they may not follow
“Zac Lee @general__lee_” they can still see his post

17. Many users have their privacy settings such that you cannot retweet their posts using
the retweet button in Method 1.
Notice how the options at
the bottom do not include
retweet.

18. But, you can still retweet this message using Method 2!
1. Copy the tweet “Weird weather on the plains. Does misting
require a rain jacket?”
2. Paste into the compose a new Tweet box
3. In front of the copied tweet type RT (stands for retweet) and then the
@username, in this case @AshleyCulpepper
4. Press the “Tweet”
button and post has
been retweeted!

19. Username: To
tag someone in
a twitter post,
put the “@”
symbol in front
of their
username
Hashtag:
indicated by a “#” Picture link: the
in front of a word way to embed a
or set of words picture in a tweet.
with no spaces The picture
between them associated with
this link can be
seen if you click on
the tweet.