Twitter Talk

Michael Rees, School of IT, Bond University, 9 February 2009

Twitter Talk
Michael Rees
School of IT
Bond University
1. London
2. New York
3. San Francisco
4. Sao Paulo
5. Chicago
6. Seattle
7. Shibuya
8. Toronto
9. Brooklyn
10. West Hollywood
11. Sydney
Top Twitter Cities
http://is.gd/gSnN
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What is Twitter?
Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users’ updates (otherwise known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter
Micro-blogs borrow features from a variety of other communications media
Simple Twitter Features
140-character limit 
Send/receive from web, client or mobile 
Create a set of followers 
Send public replies 
Send direct messages 
Open API to create Twitterverse
Join up at http://twitter.com
Watch a Twitter video at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSHvikBuv3Y&eurl=http://dotdolfin.com/twitter/twitter-on-video/
Choose your Twitter badge carefully
Regular tweets of 140 characters
Replies: start with @username
Direct 1-to-1 messages: start with d username
Tag a tweet with a hashtag: #bushfires
http://dotfolfin.com/twitter becomes a link
Sending Tweets
Choose wisely
About 150 max: Dunbar’s number
Friends
The Twitterverse
A digital water cooler
A stream you dip into
A cocktail party
A virtual office
What knowledge management always wanted to be
Networking for Agoraphobics
Twitter has about 45 million users
According to Martin Weller Twitter is:
Twitter Wrap
The End
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