2. What is Twitter?
“a service for friends, family, and co–workers to
communicate and stay connected through the
exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple
question: What are you doing?”
3. Let’s go to the video tape
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddO9idmax0o&feature=player_embedded
4. Evolution of Twitter
Launched in 2006 by Jack Dorsey
As of 4/12 – 500+ Million Users
Facebook has 1 billion
Current Logo
Source:
6. Be a Follower
. Your Twitter feed is populated by
people you follow.
. You can follow…
friends, family, co-workers
celebrities, news outlets and more
7. Be Followed
. Anyone can follow you and see
your updates
. Unless your account is
private, anyone can see your updates
(tweets).
12. What’s a Retweet?
Retweeting is how Twitter users share interesting tweets from the people they are
following. They copy and paste the original tweet and send it out. To give credit to the
original person, users usually put “RT” plus the originator’s username at the beginning
of the tweet. Here’s an example:
RT=Retweet
DM=Direct Message
14. @Replying
The “.@” in front allows all my users to see this tweet
Only “@” in front would only allows mutual
followers of me and @askbigqs to see the tweet
17. Twitter vs. Facebook
Twitter
.Tweets <140 characters
. You can follow someone, but they don’t have to follow you back
. You can look at someone’s public profile and see their tweets without following them
. You are shown every update in your Twitter feed
Facebook
. 16,000+ characters
. You friend someone and you are mutually connected
. You can Like Brand Pages such as Gables, Coke, Oreos and receive their updates
. You are not shown every update in your Facebook timeline
18. Why I <3 Twitter
. You receive all updates.
. It isn’t mutually exclusive. You can follow me, but I don’t have to follow you
. To see photos, I have to actively click the link
. Easily to connect to celebrities and brands
. News. I get most of my news from Twitter and clicking #hashtags
. It’s short and sweet
