Twitter & Social Tagging

 Twitter is a MicroBlog  140 Characters or less to say it…  Recently allowed photos to be shared  Very popular*  Officially 100 Million active users  500 Million registered accounts  All “Tweets” are being cataloged in the Library of Congress *

 Combines Texting, Instant Messaging, Blogging  Short format keeps it simple and to the point  140 Characters  Breaking news- hours before it ends up on the tv.  Trending topics- popular by mentions (#topic)  Tagging goes social…We interact with our words

 Twitter not the whole future, but a large part of it  We are a busy people-  We need as much info in as little time as possible  Keep up with the world around us, or the Jones’

 Founded in 2006  Biz Stone & Evan Williams  Creators of Blogger.com  Jack Dorsey  Software Architect

 Simple, descriptive username  Not bob1234 or JaneSmith  Try KnittingGranny or GearheadBob  Talk first, follow later  Start with friends, expand slowly  Post consistently & it will come

 News  Business—info about your hobby/work  Helpful information/tips  Links to favorite sites, blog posts, photos  The day-to-day stuff… all about you!

 Trivial-  What you ate for lunch  What color shoes you are wearing  Politics  Religion  Sex

 Loads of famous and non-famous alike have Twitter accounts…  Just search for them in the search bubble…

 Way for people to find what you are talking about, e.g.  #library  #doctorwho  #Colts

 You can make reference to people  Give a shout-out, or say you were with other twitter users/people in general, e.g.  I saw your rocketship in the back yard, nice! win one for a change!  They get a heads-up that someone mentioned them…They “see” the post.

 Become socially relevant  Go “Viral”  Searching for says it all…  Positive and negative feedback on the fly  “Live-tweeting” an event- rallys, Conferences, Conventions, community meetings…

reply- directly mention a person  DM- Direct Message  Retweet (RT)- Sharing someone else’s post- offer praise, spread awareness, gain power user’s attention  Tinyurl- web shortener, i.e. bit.ly, ow.ly, is.gd  Hashtag- Track specific conversations  Fail Whale- Twitter is having problems

 Mobile!  Focus changes from “What are you doing?” to “What’s happening?”  Twitter news network?

 Contact Jon–   (on Twitter, of course!)