3. Choose a name
• Not too long – makes it hard for others
to retweet your messages
• Use capitals to break up your name
@LivUniLibrary
• Photo/Logo essential
4. Send some tweets
• A link to a website you find useful,
“I’m just testing twitter” ...whatever
• People are more likely to follow you if
you are an “active” user
5. 3. Follow!
It’s not stalking, honest...
Follow colleagues, institutions, funders –
the library... and see who they follow
Many will follow
you back
6. Managing Twitter
Create Columns for :
different accounts (personal and institutional)
search terms e.g. “sydney jones”
Hashtags for conferences, themes etc #phdchat
7.
8. Is Twitter increasing impact?
“altmetrics”
Altmetric Bookmarklet for
Chrome, FireFox and Safari
http://www.altmetric.com/book
marklet.php
9. Could Social Media
“buzz” increase
citations?
Eysenbach G
Can Tweets Predict Citations? Metrics of Social Impact Based on
Twitter and Correlation with Traditional Metrics of Scientific
Impact
J Med Internet Res 2011;13(4):e123
URL: http://www.jmir.org/2011/4/e123/
doi: 10.2196/jmir.2012
PMID: 22173204
10. Hashtags
• Click to follow them e.g. #phdchat
• Make your own – e.g. for a conference
• Sometimes used for emphasis
12. Over to you...
Create an account on
http://www.twitter.com
• Search for Key
Journals/Institutions/People in your
area and follow
13. Thanks...
Any Questions?
emma.thompson@liv.ac.uk
image from twittermoma.jpg
14. Want to know more?
LSE Social Media Blog
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/201
1/09/29/twitter-guide/
Prof. Dorothy Bishop, Oxford (Developmental Neuropsychology)
http://deevybee.blogspot.com/2011/06/gentle-
introduction-to-twitter-for.html
More links and blogs:
http://www.scoop.it/t/twitter-for-academics