Skills: create a Twitter account, subscribe to (follow) the class Twitter feed, post tweets Concepts: subscription This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. Creating a Twitter account
Where does this topic fit? Internet concepts – Applications – Technology – Implications Internet skills – Application development – Content creation – User skills
Watch this video first
If you are new to Twitter, watch this video. Then go to twitter.com and sign up for an account. Open a Twitter account Twitter in plain English (2m 23s):
Go to my Twitter page at Subscribe to the class Twitter feed
Read and post tweets Type your tweets here.
Summary
Questions 1.What is the URL (Web address) of your new account? 2.How many tweets have I posted to the class Twitter stream at twitter.com/larrypress? 3.What URL (Web address) do you go to if you want to post a tweet? 4.If you post a tweet, who will see it? 5.You’ve subscribed to my Twitter stream. What other sorts of things might one subscribe to on the Internet?