Lunch and Learn on Twitter basics 8.23.2012

1. What’s all the Tweeting about?

2. What is Twitter?
Twitter is an information network made up of
140-character messages called
Tweets

3. London 2012
150 Million Tweets

4. Inspire

5. Inform

6. Educate

7. Entertain

8. Using Twitter on Mobile/iPad

9. Using Twitter on the Web
Profile Page

10. Home Page

11. Follow Your Interests
• # Discover
–Search by stories, activity, Twitter
suggestions, email contact list,
categories
–On your favorite websites
–Find Catholics at TweetCatholic.com
and #cathmedia

12. Recognize Bots and Spammers
Never follow someone who is an
egg head unless you know them.
Never follow someone who has 0 followers and / or has tweeted 0 times
Never follow someone who replied to one of your tweets with a link:

13. Listen and Learn the Language
• RT-re-tweet
• #hashtag
• D bishopburbige
• @bishopburbidge
• #FF Follow Friday

14. Share from Websites

15. Your Tweets
• Tweet links of interest to you
• Be relevant to your followers
• RT other people’s Tweets
• @reply speaking directly to someone
• .@reply someone but followers can see
• Tweet images and video

16. Tweet NOT

17. Twitter Etiquette
• Tweet as if at a cocktail party
• Respond to others, be social
• Give credit where credit is due
• Don’t be Debbie Downer
• Use proper English and punctuation
• Don’t use Auto DM or auto follow tools
• Use common sense
• Tweet about things other than yourself
• Stick to 140 or fewer characters
• Limit exclamation points!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

18. Third Party Applications
• HootSuite www.hootsuite.com
• Tweet Deck www.tweetdeck.com
• Seesmic https://seesmic.com/
• Tweet Chat http://tweetchat.com/