5. Twitter (since 2006)
• Over 500 million
Twitter accounts (Over
100 million in U.S.)
• 175 million tweets
daily (Thousands of
tweets per second)
6. Vernacular
• Handle = username (@makalajohnson)
• Retweet = Forwarding another user’s tweet to all of your
followers
• Modified Tweet = Twitter etiquette applied to edited tweet (MT)
7. Vernacular
• Follow = choose to receive another’s tweets in your newsfeed
• Hashtag = the # symbol is used to mark keywords or topics in a
tweet
• #MCCSM = Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media
• #SMinMN = This Residency
• Direct Message = private tweet sent to a follower
8.
9. Lists
• Curated stream
• Can follow the list and see their tweets without following all the
individuals in that list
10. Promoted Trends / Tweets
• Purchased to reach a wider group of users or to spark
engagement from existing followers
