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TwitterWhat, Why, Who & How Ian Quartermaine   Head of Learning Technologies – JPC Twitter : point2five
What? Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author's profile page and delivered to the author's subscribers who are known as followers
The Company Started in March 2006 as a side project Predicted around 18 million users by the end of 2009 Valued at approx. 1 Billion (Sept 09) Twitter remains just a fraction of the size of Facebook at 250 million active users, 120 million of whom claim they login at least once daily.
A quick tour http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddO9idmax0o
Why? What are you doing? It’s more than “I had cornflakes for breakfast” Only follow those people who are interesting!!
Why? Follow – friends Follow – celebrities and leaders of various kindsFollow – experts and enthusiasts on all topics Tweetup- is an event where people who Twitter come together to meet in person Search trending topics Breaking news Eg. #earthquakes – “Real time web” (un)Conference (back channels) Television shows  Eg. #qanda Education – Many applications – see later PLN – Personal Learning Network Develop yours by following educators in your field
Who? Individuals  Celebrities   ? Organisations & Societies   Companies    ? Institutions     Marketers   Spammers 
Twitter is down   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd4WZ3LqCKw
How? – The tools Free twitter account at - http://www.twitter.com Install Tweetdeck from -  http://www.tweetdeck.com/beta/ iPhone/iPod -  iTunesApps – Tweetie, Tweetdeck, Twitteriffic
URL shorteners With only 140 characters you can’t afford URLs like - https://classroom.jpc.qld.edu.au/Collaboration/Virtual%20Class%20Rooms/58041932-2009-44a2-bc1b-d3d0344219e4-defaultaspx/senior/seniorCentral/sandy/default.aspx?PageView=Shared Use service like http://tinyurl.com/produces http://tinyurl.com/ygxmtwwOther services include http://bit.ly/ & http://doiop.com/*  Tweetdeck automatically incorporates URL shortening
How ? -   Settings - Bio Set your bio message
How ? -  Settings - Avatar Upload your avatar image
How ? -  Settings - Theme
How ? -   Twitter – Following ,[object Object]
Some suggestions at : http://etherpad.com/fbe3y3M6hn,[object Object]
How ? -  Using Twitter  Shows your tweets and those of  the people you follow. Also Stats, @ replies, Direct messages & Trending topics Shows only your tweets. Also your avatar, bio and thumbnails of your followers My clicking a thumbnail and the icon shown the following  options are available
How? – Special syntax - @ Include in message @tweetname and they will see it regardless of whether they follow you or notThis is also the way to specifically reply to a particular person. Roll over tweet and then click Tweetdeck or
How? – Special syntax - D Direct messageStart message with D tweetname and only they will see itEgD GuyKawasaki - Good post yesterday on . Well done.  Tweetdeck or
How? – Special syntax - RT Re- Tweet  -  acknowledging the tweet of anotherStart message with RT @tweetname followed by text of tweet. Resends the whole tweet to all your followers. There are variations on this. Eg.      RT @GuyKawasaki: Five ways to lose a customer in a flash http://om.ly/PZtR  Tweetdeck
How? – Special syntax - # Special identifier tags for search termsA search term is decided on for a specific event or topic and then used in tweets. These tags  can then be searched and aggregatedEg.    #qsite09           #edrev09           #medievalbumperstickers
Google Gadgets for search Integration with iGoogle portal Search for “twitter search #”  OR    Google Gadgets for your webpageSearch for “twitter search #”
How? – Tweetdeck Ultimate tutorial http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEDOXHEfxrw
Tweetdeck  –  Settings ,[object Object]
Login
multiple accounts
colours
services,[object Object]
iPhone - Applications The next level of Twitter use begins once you have a client for your phone or PDA!! “Tweetie”
iPhone - Applications “Tweetdeck” for iPhone Also a free App called “Twitteriffic”
Tweet Aggregators ,[object Object]
 No Twitter account requiredhttp://visibletweets.com/ http://twitterfall.com/ Used as peer feedback mechanism and discussion space http://twapperkeeper.com/
Lists Lists are groupings created by twitter users and enable subscription to a whole group  http://listorious.com/
Other Resources ,[object Object]

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Twitter - What, Why, Who & How

  • 1. TwitterWhat, Why, Who & How Ian Quartermaine Head of Learning Technologies – JPC Twitter : point2five
  • 2. What? Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author's profile page and delivered to the author's subscribers who are known as followers
  • 3. The Company Started in March 2006 as a side project Predicted around 18 million users by the end of 2009 Valued at approx. 1 Billion (Sept 09) Twitter remains just a fraction of the size of Facebook at 250 million active users, 120 million of whom claim they login at least once daily.
  • 4. A quick tour http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddO9idmax0o
  • 5. Why? What are you doing? It’s more than “I had cornflakes for breakfast” Only follow those people who are interesting!!
  • 6. Why? Follow – friends Follow – celebrities and leaders of various kindsFollow – experts and enthusiasts on all topics Tweetup- is an event where people who Twitter come together to meet in person Search trending topics Breaking news Eg. #earthquakes – “Real time web” (un)Conference (back channels) Television shows Eg. #qanda Education – Many applications – see later PLN – Personal Learning Network Develop yours by following educators in your field
  • 7. Who? Individuals  Celebrities   ? Organisations & Societies  Companies   ? Institutions  Marketers  Spammers 
  • 8. Twitter is down  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd4WZ3LqCKw
  • 9. How? – The tools Free twitter account at - http://www.twitter.com Install Tweetdeck from - http://www.tweetdeck.com/beta/ iPhone/iPod - iTunesApps – Tweetie, Tweetdeck, Twitteriffic
  • 10. URL shorteners With only 140 characters you can’t afford URLs like - https://classroom.jpc.qld.edu.au/Collaboration/Virtual%20Class%20Rooms/58041932-2009-44a2-bc1b-d3d0344219e4-defaultaspx/senior/seniorCentral/sandy/default.aspx?PageView=Shared Use service like http://tinyurl.com/produces http://tinyurl.com/ygxmtwwOther services include http://bit.ly/ & http://doiop.com/* Tweetdeck automatically incorporates URL shortening
  • 11. How ? - Settings - Bio Set your bio message
  • 12. How ? - Settings - Avatar Upload your avatar image
  • 13. How ? - Settings - Theme
  • 14.
  • 15.
  • 16. How ? - Using Twitter Shows your tweets and those of the people you follow. Also Stats, @ replies, Direct messages & Trending topics Shows only your tweets. Also your avatar, bio and thumbnails of your followers My clicking a thumbnail and the icon shown the following options are available
  • 17. How? – Special syntax - @ Include in message @tweetname and they will see it regardless of whether they follow you or notThis is also the way to specifically reply to a particular person. Roll over tweet and then click Tweetdeck or
  • 18. How? – Special syntax - D Direct messageStart message with D tweetname and only they will see itEgD GuyKawasaki - Good post yesterday on . Well done. Tweetdeck or
  • 19. How? – Special syntax - RT Re- Tweet - acknowledging the tweet of anotherStart message with RT @tweetname followed by text of tweet. Resends the whole tweet to all your followers. There are variations on this. Eg. RT @GuyKawasaki: Five ways to lose a customer in a flash http://om.ly/PZtR Tweetdeck
  • 20. How? – Special syntax - # Special identifier tags for search termsA search term is decided on for a specific event or topic and then used in tweets. These tags can then be searched and aggregatedEg. #qsite09 #edrev09 #medievalbumperstickers
  • 21. Google Gadgets for search Integration with iGoogle portal Search for “twitter search #” OR Google Gadgets for your webpageSearch for “twitter search #”
  • 22. How? – Tweetdeck Ultimate tutorial http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEDOXHEfxrw
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  • 28. iPhone - Applications The next level of Twitter use begins once you have a client for your phone or PDA!! “Tweetie”
  • 29. iPhone - Applications “Tweetdeck” for iPhone Also a free App called “Twitteriffic”
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  • 31. No Twitter account requiredhttp://visibletweets.com/ http://twitterfall.com/ Used as peer feedback mechanism and discussion space http://twapperkeeper.com/
  • 32. Lists Lists are groupings created by twitter users and enable subscription to a whole group http://listorious.com/
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  • 37. 28 other classroom applications GoogleDoc compiled by educators and initiated through twitter Twenty eight Interesting Ways to use Twitter in the Classroom (http://docs.google.com/Present?docid=dhn2vcv5_118cfb8msf8)
  • 38. Twitter in the Back Channel In public speaking, back-channelling is the practice of electronically passing notes among some or all of the audience. When sanctioned this practice is particularly useful for speakers who are attempting to dynamically modify their presentations based on immediate feedback from the audience. When unsanctioned this practice is often very distracting for the presenter. Meebo and Twitter are common back channelling devices although any chat room style device works
  • 39. Twitter in the Back Channel Teaching With Twitter: Not for the Faint of Heart