Wonderful World of Twitter

The fundamentals you’ll need to knowThe fundamentals you’ll need to know

Twitter is an information network. Millions of people, organizations, and businesses use it to

discover and share new information.

• 370,000 new sign-ups daily • 95,000,000 Tweets per day • 175,000,000 registered user

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• Mention (or @ ‘at’ reply)• Retweet (old & new)• Message (or DM)• Hashtag

• Twitterverse• Failwhale• Tweeple• FF or Follow Friday• Tweet chat

• Reach a large audience• Gain new following• Find sources• Find news• Direct access to politicians, celebrities,

athletes

• Twitter Lists• Twitter Applications• Alerts

• There is so much information, you can’t possibly hear through the noise

• Twitter Lists let you categorize and organize people you follow Consider Twitter lists for• politicians who tweet• Journalists that cover a certain beat• Topical keyword lists

• http://twitter.com/GCITweets/gannett-sports

Journalism-Centric

• Twitter.com• Tweetdeck• Seesmic• Hootsuite

Twitter.com

Tweetdeck

Seesmic Desktop

Hootsuite

Twitter for iPhone Tweetdeck for iPhone Seesmic for iPhone

• Topify• Pu.ly• Nutshellmail• Tweetbeep• AlertThingy

Topify

Pu.ly

Nutshellmail

• http://search.twitter.com

Trending topics

• Listorious• Twellow• WeFollow• Twitter Chat Directory• Oneforty.com

Listorious

Twellow

WeFollow

Oneforty

• Sign up at Twitter.com• Do some searches• Follow some lists and/or create your own

• http://twitter.com/#!/verified/world-leaders• http://twitter.com/#list/CNN/anchors-and-

reporters• http://twitter.com/#!/politicians/• http://tweetcongress.org/• http://www.mediaontwitter.com/• http://www.breakingtweets.com/• http://www.twitterjournalism.com/

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