Why you should be tweeting and how to do it

Why you should use Twitter Community building, research dissemination and collaborations Improve education and public awareness of cardiovascular disease 316 million monthly active users 500 million Tweets/day Promote your research and the research done by your colleagues/collaborators/department

Fantastic way to reach more people During March, we did 44 original tweets and 104 retweets, which have reached 18.6 k people !

Create an account Go to: More details at Choose a username Optional: Choose photo and write a few sentences about you I suggest adding something like: “My posts are my personal views.”

Once you login… This is your info This is where you will write your “tweet” This is what people you follow are saying This is what we said

How to follow others If you click here you will see everybody that you follow Type in the name here Click on the name Click on “follow” Personalise your account so you see only what you are interested in

A hashtag is a word or an unspaced phrase prefixed with # to form a label. Allows grouping of similarly tagged messages. Allows an electronic search to return all tweets that contain it. Tips: #shortandsimple #relevant #consistent

Example Hashtag of common words This is the link to the full article If you liked it, click on the star You can re-tweet this to your followers by clicking here Use it to reply to a tweet

How to tweet Max 140 characters You can add photos You can add a link to another website To tag someone and their Twitter account name will tag HBPRCA account) To hashtag, add # (i.e. #stateofheart2014, #bloodpressure, #research) Keep it short, sweet and simple

How long does it take? As long as you want!