1. Skills: familiarity with the Twitter user interface and major features, the #hashtag and @-sign, and search Concepts: evolution of Twitter applications and access modes, citizen journalism, trending topics and finding people as well as information This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. Using Twitter

2. Where does this topic fit? Internet concepts – Applications – Technology – Implications Internet skills – Application development – Content creation – User skills (Twitter)

3. http://www.commoncraft.com/twitter Watch this video first

4. Not just personal friends

5. Twitter, a micro blogging service http://www.twitter.com/

6. My profile page, with class feed http://www.twitter.com/larrypress

7. Mark, re-tweet or reply

8. Watch this video http://commoncraft.com/twitter-search

9. @username: specify a particular Twitter user Hashtag: retrieve posts on a given topic Two special characters

10. Search for #Jan25

12. @username

13. Trending topics – citizen journalism

14. Finding people with common interests

15. Twitter’s evolution 2006-20012

16. Twitter’s evolution 2006-20012

17. Accounts are free

18. Play time

19. Summary

20. Self-study questions 1.There are four tabs at the top of the Twitter Web site. What is the difference between the “Home” and “Profile” pages? 2.What is the purpose of the “Who to Follow” page? 3.We did not cover the “Messages” tab – how is it used? 4.How are the at sign (@) and hash character (#) used in the Twitter community? 5.What are the trending topics right now in Los Angeles? Check an hour later. Have they changed? 6.Are the trending topics in Los Angeles the same as the trending topics in New York? London? 7.The following slide has links to two versions of the same presentation: a video and a “Prezi.” Which do you like best? 8.When you send someone a tweet that begins with @username, does it appear in your tweet stream, theirs or both? 9.What is the difference between a tweet that begins with @username and one that has @username in the middle?

21. Twitter support: https://support.twitter.com/ A video introduction to Twitter: http://derekbruff.com/talks/twitter101lilly.swf A “Prezi” of the above video: http://prezi.com/woab_ix3hvt0/twitter-101-for-the-2010-pod-network-conference/ Book about the use of Twitter in business by tech journalist Julio Ojeda-Zapata: http://yourtech.typepad.com/twitinbiz/ Interview of Juilio Ojeda Zapata on his use of Twitter as a journalist (audio and transcript). http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2008/08/22/06 Introduction to Twitter in business: http://business.twitter.com/ Twitter search in plain English (3m 19s video): http://commoncraft.com/twitter-search Talk by Clay Shirky, which includes examples of Twitter in citizen journalism: http://cis275topics.blogspot.com/2010/09/how-social-media-can-make-history.html Interview of Twitter co-founders on their backgrounds, Twitter evolution and plans for the future: http://cis275topics.blogspot.com/2010/09/evolution-and-impact-of-twitter.html Resources