20. How Not To Tweet King, David Lee. “How Not to Tweet” July 21, 2009. http://www.davidleeking.com/2009/07/21/how-not-to-tweet/
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Notes de l'éditeur
Issues: public/private tagging conventions: topic, location, people, mood, music
In May 2007UMBC Ebiquity Grou (http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/) reported Twitter had100,000 users and was doubling every month, averaging 16,500 tweets/hour with peak use on Mondays. Twitter hit 75 million accounts in January 2010.
In May 2007UMBC Ebiquity Grou (http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/) reported Twitter had100,000 users and was doubling every month, averaging 16,500 tweets/hour with peak use on Mondays. Twitter hit 75 million accounts in January 2010.
In May 2007UMBC Ebiquity Grou (http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/) reported Twitter had100,000 users and was doubling every month, averaging 16,500 tweets/hour with peak use on Mondays
In May 2007UMBC Ebiquity Grou (http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/) reported Twitter had100,000 users and was doubling every month, averaging 16,500 tweets/hour with peak use on Mondays The researchers found that the majority of conference attendees already had a Twitter account (95.1%) and many of those who did actively used it to tweet during the conference (67.5%). 74.1% of the attendees send between 11 and 20 messages per day and 51.2% discussed topics via @ replies and DMs. As to what the conference goers shared, it was discovered that nearly half the tweets were simple plain text messages while tweets with links to web sites only accounted for 10% of the messages. In other words, the Twitterers were using the medium to share the information they were learning at the present moment.
In May 2007UMBC Ebiquity Grou (http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/) reported Twitter had100,000 users and was doubling every month, averaging 16,500 tweets/hour with peak use on Mondays
Library events – Let people know what’s going on. Having a movie night in the library? Let people know. Having a chili cookoff? Get the word out! Links to articles, videos, etc. – If you come across web content that would be relevant or helpful to your patrons, tweet it. You can even tweet things marginally related if you think your patrons would respond favorably. Twitter is great for sending links. And don’t forget to use a link shortener like bit.ly or tinyurl . Solicit feedback – Twitter is made for conversations, so feel free to ask questions of your followers. Ask things that you actually want to know about and that you are prepared to act upon though. Don’t ask, “should the library stay open until midnight?” unless you’re prepared to do something with their responses. New additions to your collection - Got some new books? Added a database recently? Tweet it up! People might not know about your additions unless you tell them. Twitter can be helpful for informing patrons about new resources. Marketing - get the word out about how great your library is! Libraries and librarians do some pretty awesome stuff, but people don’t always see it. Let people know you just created a new tutorial or that you had over 150,000 visits last year. Don’t worry about tooting your own horn a little bit, just not all the time. Answer questions - in the example below I noticed someone was working on a paper and simply sent them a link, you’d be surprised how powerful that can be.
Key Questions: What do you want to get out of it? Why are you setting it up? Who’s going to maintain the account? Who’s going to answer tweets? Who do you plan to connect with?
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