1. twitter 101
“short bursts of inconsequential
information”

2. what is it?
• Social media “micro-blogging” platform
• Launched July 2006
• One of the ten most visited websites

3. 140 characters
• why?
• mobile messaging
– worldwide standard of SMS/text messages is 160
characters

4. why use it?
• public
• large reach
• fast

5. composing a tweet
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brevity and clarity-you need BOTH
timing is key
don’t “plagiarize”
Google/Snopes “facts” before posting
Watch. Your. Language.

6. The lingo
• @-links to someone’s profile/mention. Like
“tagging.”
• Avatar-profile picture
• Direct Message/DM-private tweets, but be
careful
• Favorite-indicate you like something,
acknowledge receipt of it.
• Follow/Following/Followers

7. • #FF- “Follow Friday”
• #-hashtag. Used to mark words/keywords. NO
SPACES.
• Lists
• MT-Modified Tweet. Like a retweet, but use if
you change the tweet in any way.
• OH-Overheard
• Promoted Tweets-twitter’s version of ads. We
will get to this!
• Reply-responding to someone’s tweet

8. Retweet
• RT
• Noun and verb!
• Check the source before retweeting

9. • Timeline-your personal collection of tweets,
composed of everyone you follow.
• Timestamp-time indicating when a tweet was
sent
• Trend/trending-what’s popular on twitter right
now. Can set locally, regionally, nationally.
• URL-Uniform Resource Locator

10. Let’s tweet together!
• Open twitter and log in