Twitter 101

What is Twitter?

“a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?”

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Evolution of Twitter

Launched in 2006 by Jack Dorsey

As of 4/12 – 500+ Million Users

Facebook has 1 billion

Source: Wikipedia

Current Logo

Introduction

< 140 charactersHow many does Facebook allow?

Be a Follower

. You can follow…friends, family, co-workerscelebrities, news outlets and more

. Your Twitter feed is populated by people you follow.

Be Followed

. Anyone can follow you and seeyour updates

. Unless your account is private, anyone can see your updates (tweets).

Private Accounts

. You may have a private account

Public Accounts

. Most accounts are public

. Anything you Tweet can be seen by anyone

Verified account

Let’s Tweet!

What do I tweet about?

Let’s Tweet!

.Links to articles

.Pictures

.Retweets

.Innermost thoughts

.Quotes

What’s a Retweet?Retweeting is how Twitter users share interesting tweets from the people they are following. They copy and paste the original tweet and send it out. To give credit to the original person, users usually put “RT” plus the originator’s username at the beginning of the tweet. Here’s an example:

RT=Retweet

DM=Direct Message

@tagging

@Replying

The “.@” in front allows all my users to see this tweet

Only “@” in front would only allows mutual followers of me and @askbigqs to see the tweet

#hashtags

# Hash tags can be anything you want

Trending Topics

As of 11:17pm 12/2/12

Twitter vs. Facebook

Twitter.Tweets <140 characters. You can follow someone, but they don’t have to follow you back. You can look at someone’s public profile and see their tweets without following them. You are shown every update in your Twitter feed

Facebook. 16,000+ characters. You friend someone and you are mutually connected. You can Like Brand Pages such as Gables, Coke, Oreos and receive their updates. You are not shown every update in your Facebook timeline

Why I <3 Twitter

. You receive all updates.

. It isn’t mutually exclusive. You can follow me, but I don’t have to follow you

. To see photos, I have to actively click the link

. Easily to connect to celebrities and brands

. News. I get most of my news from Twitter and clicking #hashtags

. It’s short and sweet

Credits

This presentation was created by: SociallyGold

@socially_GoldFacebook.com/sociallyGold

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Questions?