What is Twitter?
Twitter is a free micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other users' updates known as tweets. Tweets answer the fundamental question “What are you doing?” In its most simplistic form this can be a one or two word answer, but when developed this is a tool that lends itself to developing understanding and starting collaboration. Conversation and collaboration can be carried out in real time (synchronous) or over time (asynchronous). It is often described as filling the gap between email and instant messaging. Each message or ‘tweet’ is no more than 200 characters in length and may include a link to a web site, article, blog and so on. To use Twitter, you need access to the Internet either from a computer or mobile phone.
How can I use Twitter?
·Develop your own knowledge by sharing ideas, opinions and resources from a group of people that you have chosen to follow and who follow you. Reflect on your practice and compare and contrast with experiences of other people in your group.
How to get started·
Create an account at www.twitter.com.
Find people to follow by:·
Searching by name for people you know on Twitter.
Twitter is a free micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other users' updates known as tweets. Tweets answer the fundamental question “What are you doing?” In its most simplistic form this can be a one or two word answer, but when developed this is a tool that lends itself to developing understanding and starting collaboration. Conversation and collaboration can be carried out in real time (synchronous) or over time (asynchronous). It is often described as filling the gap between email and instant messaging. Each message or ‘tweet’ is no more than 200 characters in length and may include a link to a web site, article, blog and so on. To use Twitter, you need access to the Internet either from a computer or mobile phone.
How can I use Twitter?
·Develop your own knowledge by sharing ideas, opinions and resources from a group of people that you have chosen to follow and who follow you. Reflect on your practice and compare and contrast with experiences of other people in your group.
How to get started·
Create an account at www.twitter.com.
- A comment is called a Tweet. It is 140 characters long. You can tweet as often as you want.
- Following somebody on Twitter simply means receiving their Twitter updates. You will receive a message in your Twitter home page in real time, every time the person you are following posts a message.
- To reply to a follower and/or mention them in your tweet, use their @ Twitter name.
- Remember, every tweet you write can be seen by the ‘whole world’, but chances are only your followers will care about it.
- To send a ‘direct message’ or Tweet that only the intended recipient will see, use D at the start of your message.
- To follow somebody, click on their name and press ‘follow’. If you no longer want to receive their updates, click ‘unfollow’ or ‘block’ to stop them following you.
- Links to websites in your tweets are automatically shortened to reduce characters.
- RT or retweet is a way of ‘forwarding’ interesting tweets made by others to your followers.
- Hash tags # are used to tag tweets and make searching easier. Hash tags are often used in conferences or by businesses to group all relevant tweets.
Find people to follow by:·
Searching by name for people you know on Twitter.
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