Internet Safety Blog

 What is Twitter?  Why use it?  Create Accounts  Secure your account  Find and Follow people  Tweet to a smartphone  Shorten URLs

2 minute You Tube Video explanation: ?v=ddO9idmax0o

 In search engine type: “ What is Retweet ”  Forwards a tweet to your followers Or do a …  “Reply” only goes to original Tweeter Or do a….  Direct Message (DM)

Only Goes To Original Author

 A way of organizing tweets  e.g. #topic or #ejlib  Define it to your followers before using it  Used in Conferences and events Example: Tweet using hashtag #update : “Microsoft April patch Tuesday #update” (then search on hashtag “#update”)

 Moves tweets of those YOU follow from your tweetstream and corrals them in a list  Organizes those YOU follow  Cuts down on Timeline entries  Recommend favorites in a list  Measure Influence  Up to 20 lists of 500 users

 only 140 characters in a Tweet  Use them to shorten long URLs › (no sign up) › (sign up)  others CAN BE DANGEROUS!

After previous setup -on your smartphone:  Type START (wait for response)  Reply with Twitter Username  Reply with Password  Reply with OK  In phone address book set up Twitter with number 40404