Welcome to Twitter, and to #MMJC10DoT To start off with, you’ll need to sign up to Twitter. You can see people’s tweets without an account, by viewing their profile or by searching for a keyword, as it’s a very public social media channel. Without an account, though, you won’t be able to join in the […]
Sending Tweets: Day Two of #MMJC10DoT
What do you tweet? Twitter only allows you to send 280 characters, which doesn’t seem like much. But that is not all. It used to be only 140 characters, and the vast majority of Tweets still are closer to the 140-character length than longer. It’s difficult to say something meaningful in such a short amount […]
Following People: Day Three of #MMJC10DoT
You’ve sent your first tweets, creating interesting and engaging content for your potential followers. The other side to Twitter, of course, is the stream of information brought to you by the people you follow. And if you follow people, chances are they will take a look at your profile and decide to follow you in […]
Sending @messages: Day Four of #MMJC10DoT
Including other people in your tweets with the @ You’ve sent some tweets, followed people and hopefully gained some followers of your own. Some people prefer to listen more than they tweet, which is fine – the only thing to consider is, the more you say about your interests and interact with others, the more […]
Using Links & Link Shorteners: Day Five of #MMJC10DoT
You can’t say a lot in 140-280 characters – but you can capture someone’s interests and link to other places on the web where a topic can be discussed at greater length, perhaps in an article or blog post. Maybe you’ve seen a new story, item of news or a webpage you want to comment […]
Retweeting: Day Six of #MMJC10DoT
You’ve send a few tweets over the last five lessons – hopefully you’ve found plenty in your everyday routine which would be of interest to others, whether they are your student colleagues, peers in your field, or others. But it really would be hard work to generate all the material yourself to feed your followers […]
Hashtags: Day Seven of #MMJC10DoT
Hashtags (using the # symbol) is where Twitter really gets interesting. Today is therefore a little more complex than usual, apologies! The hashtag is, like the @message, a feature that was developed by users of Twitter, and was taken up and integrated by the platform as it was so useful. Basically, the hashtag is a […]
Managing People: Day Eight of #MMJC10DoT
Over the last seven lessons, you may have found that as you continue to use Twitter, you come across more and more interesting people to follow, and your following also grows exponentially. Keeping track of them all can be a challenge, and sometimes you will want to focus on certain groups of them over others, […]
Managing Information: Day Nine of #MMJC10DoT
If you’re choosing who to follow effectively, then your Twitter feed should be full of interesting tweets and links to webpages etc which you might want to follow up on. It’s easy to get overwhelmed, lose track of it all, miss things and mislay things! Twitter itself has a few features which can help you […]
Archiving, Scheduling, Storytelling: Day Ten of #MMJC10DoT
Twitter is ephemeral. Tweets are short, throwaway observations, which capture the present moment, flow past quickly and are succeeded by more recent and relevant ones. We’ve looked at a way to favourite tweets, and to bookmark the URLs they may contain, but once you’ve done this, why would you want to keep a tweet? Why […]