Real-time Twitter Search - Tweet Scan - SNCR Conference. Twitterfeed.com : feed your blog to twitter - post RSS to twitter automatically. How to use TweetDeck - Blogging Art and Practice. TweetDeck is the most useful application for managing Twitter that I’ve found. While many call it “intuitive,” some of my clients are intimidated by it. Perhaps they don’t realize it has tooltip-type hints when you mouse over the various buttons, or maybe the tips don’t explain enough.
For those of you who want more than tooltips, here is a basic introduction to TweetDeck. Organize your screen with these buttons The following nine buttons function as toggles. Click here to type a message (status update). Using the tweetbox to post a message. (Click image to enlarge) Your message is also called a status update. Do you want to share a picture? Finally, if your message is just a leetle too long, click (F) to use Tweetshrink to trim it down. Info from an individual status update Each group that you create is a vertical column of messages, with the newest at the top. Click on image to enlarge When you click the Reply button, the tweetbox opens up, with @recipient already inserted for you.
Visual Guide to Twitter. Twitter is for listening. I make no apologies for another post about Twitter. If you’re fed up with Twitter posts, you don’t have to read this one – but I’m going to make a case for why you should. So keep reading. Don’t think of the increasing user numbers we keep hearing about as just so much more noise you have to filter out if you’re on Twitter yourself. Remember, Twitter is an opt-in idea: you decide whether or not to open an account and then who to follow or not. You’re in control! Instead, think of the stunning growth in people signing up to Twitter as more amazing listening opportunities to find out who’s saying what about you, your product, your brand, your client, or whatever it is that interests you in finding out what people are talking about online. Listening on Twitter is ridiculously easy, something every PR ought to be doing as a routine thing.
How easy? 1. 2. But, there’s a far more effective way to track the results to your keyword search, which is described in step 3. 3. Related. TweetFreak: Five to Follow: Our picks for Nov. 9. Twitter Cluelessness : The World. 101 Tweets on How to Use Twitter. How One Teacher Uses Twitter in the Classroom. Teachers are always trying to combat student apathy and University of Texas at Dallas History Professor, Monica Rankin, has found an interesting way to do it using Twitter in the classroom. Rankin uses a weekly hashtag to organize comments, questions and feedback posted by students to Twitter during class. Some of the students have downloaded Tweetdeck to their computers, others post by SMS or by writing questions on a piece of paper. Rankin then projects a giant image of live Tweets in the front of the class for discussion and suggests that students refer back to the messages later when studying. The Professor's results so far have been mixed but it is clear that more students are participating in classroom discussions than they used to.
A video about Rankin's classroom experiment follows. It's funny to hear this history professor admit that "there are some topics we discuss that need more information" than Twitter's 140 character limit allows. Twitter.edu: 100 Excellent, Educational Twitter Feeds - Learn-gasm. College Students: What Are You Waiting For? Join Twitter ASAP. To put it lightly, Twitter is a must for college students.
It is something every college student can benefit from. Over the last seven months of having a Twitter account, I can’t even begin to explain all of the opportunities I have come across from the social media Website. In 140 characters or less, I have discovered a personal outlet to the world where I can talk and connect with thousands of people across the country and the world. Twitter has been a useful source in my job hunting efforts and it even helps lower my stress level, which that alone is good enough for me. Twitter is just now beginning to grow in our society and who knows what other great opportunities lay ahead in the Twitterverse future.
When I talk about Twitter to my friends and family, they just look at me like I am the biggest geek to ever walk this planet. I keep telling them to just try it and see what they think. 1. 2. 3. 4. College students must be out of their minds not to take full advantage of Twitter. Make the Most of Your 140 Twitter Characters | TutWow. Twitter, the ever faster growing social network, is famous for its “What are you doing?”
Question. You just type in what you’re currently doing, click update, and your message gets sent off to all your followers and friends. There is one catch, though, and that is that you have to describe what you’re doing in less than 140 characters. This can be extremely hard to do, especially if you have a lot of things to say, and a lot of people don’t even bother to sign up because of it. Don’t give up on Twitter yet, however. 1. If you’re posting a URL in your tweet, then the best way you can cut down space is by using a URL shortening service. U.nuIt is the absolute shortest URL possible. Though those shorteners have extremely short domain names, Note: If you’re looking for some good Twitter apps for your Mac, you should read another post here at TutWow named 7 Free Twitter Apps for Your Mac. 2. 3.
As your grammar teacher used to tell you, “always use two spaces at the end of your sentences”. 4. Twitter Mosaic: Make Art from Twitter (and then buy it!) My Twitter Experience « Matt Mauney’s PR Blog. At first, like many others, my first impression of Twitter was that it was just another social networking site that didn’t live up to it’s competing sites like Facebook and Myspace. However, after giving it a chance and playing around with the site for a few days, I started realizing the many ways in which Twitter can be a useful resource, not just with social networking, but career networking and development. After seeing how many companies and executives not only have Twitter accounts, but use the site frequently as well. This is a very beneficial tool to help our careers in whatever fields we choose to go into. It is great to have these connections, even if the only way you have communicated with them is over Twitter.
As stated before, my initial reaction to Twitter was that it was just a site that lists status updates, just one of the many functions provided by Facebook. However, I was wrong. Like this: Like Loading... A Meaningful Life » Blog Archive » Why Teens Don’t Twitter... College Student’s Guide: Twitter 101 — Communication & Cognition. Welcome to Twitter. You’ve decided to join the quickly growing world of micro-blogging. Approximately 1 billion blog posts have been written on how to Twitter well.
This is neither my attempt to improve upon nor regurgitate them. This is simply the part that I distill to my college students, and I can point them here for a refresher. (Look at Mashable for perhaps the best overall Twitter advice I’ve seen.) Dear college student: At first you won’t quite get Twitter, and you probably won’t like it. But Twitter can help you get a job . You’re an Adult Now The first step is picking your username. Don’t tweet anything that you would not say to your mother or boss. This isn’t LinkedIn. A College Student Friendly Bio Here are some tips that will encourage people to follow you back.
Use your real name. Use a real picture. Use a real location. Write a professional bio. You’re not a guru of anything. I’d like for you to have a Web site, but that’s a discussion for another day. When to Follow Back. Twitter Groups :: PR Professors. Twitter Guide: How To Do Things With Twitter. The first tweet was published almost 8 years ago and Twitter has come a long way since then. There’s a whole ecosystem of apps and services available now that allow us to use Twitter in more ways than ever before. This guide curates the best tools that will help you get the most out of Twitter. 1. Nuzzel - This works as an intelligent filter for Twitter and helps you discover the most popular news stories shared across your Twitter network. All signal, no noise. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22.
Global Neighbourhoods: The Power of ReTweeting. I talked on Twitter a few times this week about "retweeting," or "RT" for short. It became clear there is some confusion about the practice and I wanted to expand on it. Retweeting allows the power of the network to take place, in pretty much the same way a blog link can extend the conversation from one blogger to a great many, sometimes at a very rapid rate. If you Tweet something of interest and you have an audience of 10, or 100 or 1000 and no one retweets it, that is far as your message goes. But if you have 10 followers, and one of them has 100 and he or she retweets you, your message reaches that many more people.
If of you of this wider ring... and so on. I retweet usually retweet because someone else said something that I believe some of my followers will find interesting. News of a San Francisco earthquake and more recently the China earthquake spread around the world many times before traditional news services picked it up. How I use Twitter, and you? by Jeremiah Owyang. Using Twitter as an Education Tool - Search Engine Watch (SEW) Are you using Twitter yet? If not, you may want to read how other educators are using Twitter as an education tool. For those who are coming up to speed, Twitter lets you broadcast or microblog your messages (140 characters max) to a group of friends or other subscribers, who can receive them as text messages, called a "tweet," to your subscribers and their mobile phones.
Since almost everyone has a mobile phone now this makes Twitter more effective as a communication tool. Twitter in Academia David Parry, assistant professor of Emerging Media and Communications at the University of Texas at Dallas, was a little apprehensive at first to use social media in the classroom, but after reading an article by Clive Thompson at Wired, he decided to give it a shot. After giving his students a Twitter assignment one semester, Parry was curious to see how his students would react. Instant feedback. Doug Belshaw writes about using Twitter with your students on his blog. Facilitate Active Learning. Tweet 3D: View hot Twitter topics in 3D. TwitterKeys Library. How popular are you? (open beta) The Twelve People You Meet On Twitter « The Pursuit of a Life. The Twelve People You Meet On Twitter If you’ve been around Twitter long enough, certain patterns start to emerge.
People start to develop tweeting habits, and for better or worse, those patterns tend to stay fairly stable, at least in my experience. Some people are composite creatures; others are definitely single-tracking. Do you recognize any of these people? GHOST: Starts Twittering, posts a handful of times, then disappears.NERDCORE: Hopelessly geeky (and proud of it), writes tweets like this: “Linux.com states eDonkey as best P2P client on linux But it was shutdown, wasn’t it? Can anyone confirm it?” So, which are you? Like this: Like Loading... U.K. Uses Blogs To Bring G8 To The People. How to Avoid Social Media Espionage. Nearly 1500 people have a window inside my daily actions and thoughts by subscribing to my feed and following me on Twitter. Over a thousand can see updates on what I do through Facebook. There are Flickr photos from the events that I head to and I publish the cities that I will be travelling to on Dopplr.
In a social media universe, living your life a bit in the open seems a bit unavoidable if you are really going to take advantage of all the social media tools you are signed up for. Along with this openness, however, comes the danger of publishing too much information too publicly and unwittingly leading to the rise of social media espionage ... the act of obtaining information published on social networks or online presumed to be secret or confidential and using it for personal or business gain.
In four small updates from unrelated people, a smart social media surfer could get a very direct sense of a deal about to happen and some inside information unintended to be shared. Del.icio.us search for "journalism twitter" Real-time Twitter Search - Tweet Scan for barbaranixon. Tweet Clouds :: Twitter. Is there such as thing as being fired for Twittering? | Geek Gestalt - A blog by Daniel Terdiman - CNET News.com. If you've been around the world of blogging for a while, you probably know what being "Dooced" means. If not, it means being fired for blogging , and the term comes from the real-life firing of Heather Armstrong, otherwise known as the mega-popular blogger, Dooce.
Twitter: The New Water Cooler. Alternate title: Twitter and Two Degrees of Separation... When working at the office, it's common practice that the most interesting things you learn in a day, are shared at the water cooler. It makes sense then to have a Web 2.0 water cooler, and I would suggest that the best such water cooler we have is Twitter. Note: This image is actually a flock of seagulls! Social networking works at the water cooler, and it works on Twitter. Think about it... You find something worth sharing... you tweet; You begin work on a new project... you tweet; You're looking for assistance with a problem... you tweet. The power of the 'Twittersphere' became real to me last evening around 8:00 p.m. when I was 'Uptoned'!
With Al's catching up on the many responses to his blog post, he encountered my suggestion, and not knowing who I was, put out the call via Twitter . The evidence: 1] 7:43 p.m. Tweetscan helps to tell the time-stamped story: The Big Juicy Twitter Guide | Caroline Middlebrook. Building A Twitter Following. Lots of people ask for tips on building a follower base in Twitter. If you are wondering about this, you should also ask youself another question: what's your goal? My colleague, Lisa Creech Bledsoe, and I are both avid Twitterers. However, we Tweet for entirely different purposes, and our communities of followers is radically different because we have different objectives.
Why I Tweet: @JeffTippett I Tweet in an attempt to build community. Admittedly I'm that annoying guy in the line at Starbucks that's asking how your day is going—what exciting events are coming up in your life, etc. I have an innate desire to chat and build horizontal relationships. Why I Tweet: @Glowbird For me, Twitter is all about breaking news, field-related links, and strategic partners. My Strategy: @JeffTippett Ultimately, I find followers by following people of interest to me. A List of Where to Look and How to Add • Twitter's public timeline.
Set a goal and make it happen. So, why do you Tweet? Connect: 17 Marketing Related Uses for Twitter (and counting) B.L. Ochman's weblog: Internet marketing strategy, social media trends, news and commentary.: How to Write Kickass Twitter Posts. Guide to Twitter for PR students. Guide to Twitter as a Tool for Marketing and PR. Academhack » Blog Archive » Twitter for Academia.