Presentation for Madison County Librarians and Reading Specialists, May 18, 2012.

1. Tap Into….
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a6/Water_spigot.jpg
Wendy Stephens http://tinyurl.com/MCtapintotwitter
@wsstephens
Buckhorn High School Alabama Library Association
New Market, Alabama May 18, 2012

2. ambient awareness

4. Why 140 characters?
odeo.com: “a dispatch service that connects
our phones via text”
@jack – March 21, 2006
SXSWi

5. Rapid sharing

6. Anatomy of a Tweet
avatar user name 140 characters = message body
@ = mention RT = retweet
time stamp software used # = hashtag

7. Avatar Twitter handle Anatomy of a twitter feed
Real name
Location
Your Your Bio
lists tools
Following
Followers
Listed
Tweet count
Starred tweets
Following
avatars
RSS!

8. About the RT
Citation, 21st Century Style
Manual versus Twitter’s Integrated Retweeting
Note the bit.ly url Twitter’s RT indicated by the recursive arrow icon
URL shorteners are Using Twitter’s RT, you can’t edit or add comments
a must when
tweeting You DO see how many others have RTed it
When you manually RT, you can edit, add comments

9. Dialogue: About the @
a reply or a mention
starts the conversaton
you don’t have to follow
someone to see their @
reply or @ reply to them
If someone is following
both you AND the other
tweep, they will see the
dialogue in their timeline

10. versus
Facebook status update and Twitter both a form of microblogging, but….
Open Closed
Public Invitation-only
Rally Party
No permission to view (usually) Permission required
Don’t want to manage two web presences?
Twitter can update FB, FB can update Twitter

11. You can follow people on
twitter without posting
your own tweets…

13. Can be from your phone
– via text to 40404 or app
Texting 40404 and the following commands allows you to….
FOLLOW username Start following a user
UNFOLLOW username Stop following a user
ON/OFF Turn all Tweet notifications on or off
ON/OFF username Set Tweet notifications for a user on or off
(you'll still be following them even if you set it to off)
GET username Shows you the latest tweet from any user
RT username Retweet a user's latest tweet
FAV username Favorite a user's latest tweet
D username your-message Send a direct message to a user

14. Blogs & calendars can be set to auto-tweet

15. Twitter can be closed -- DMs

16. DMs can come to your phone

17. DMs can come to your email

18. Twitter can be private
on tweep’s page
the padlock
on timeline

28. 2010
2010

34. Building YOUR Own Twitter PLN
Teri Lesene
https://twitter.com/#!/professornana
Jim Burke
https://twitter.com/#!/englishcomp
Kylene Beers
http://twitter.com/#!/kylenebeers
Search for Authors, Publishers, Libraries, School Library Journal
bloggers, NCTE, ALAN on twitter
Anyone with using the #bookaday hashtag

38. @Ryanatmghwom

43. Tap Into….
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a6/Water_spigot.jpg
Wendy Stephens http://tinyurl.com/MCtapintotwitter
@wsstephens
Buckhorn High School Alabama Library Association
New Market, Alabama May 18, 2012