Twitter tools

4 April 2011

A New Genre•D versus @ versus RT

•Follow versus Friend

•#hashtags

•Lists

•TinyUrl et al

Getting Started

•Web Browser (Twitter.com)

•Tweetdeck or Seesmic (desktop apps)

•Cellphone (lots of apps, of course)

How To Follow

•From The Web

•Log in, click “Follow” button

•From an app

•In status field, type follow @UserName

Who To Follow

•Thought Leaders – See who they follow

•“Real Life” Friends

•Interesting People – Have fun, too!

•Wire Feeds – Twitter as RSS reader

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commercialKathy E. Gill

• http://faculty.washington.edu/kegill or @kegill, @kegill_uw

• http://wiredpen.com/ and http://slideshare.net/kegill

Images: • Twitter.com logo

• Toolbox, http://www.autotoys.com/x/product.php?productid=7087