Thing 18, 19 - Join Twitter, Tweet for a Week
Friday, November 28th, 2008Thing 18. Create a Twitter account and add some friends.
Why? To understand how 24/7 connection changes communication and collaboration online
Please do Things 16 and 17 before this one although they are separate ways of communicating.
Create account
Joining twitter is just the same as joining Facebook, except you don’t have to go to your email and click on a link to verify your membership.
It is important that once you have joined, you go to Settings (top right corner) and select “Protect my updates”. This means that only people you have allowed to “follow” you can see your updates.
Find Folks
Use the “Find Folks” search box in the green sidebar to search for the user “RossO49″ or go straight to his profile page: http://twitter.com/ROSSO49 . Select the grey “follow” button under his photo.
Look at the green sidebar on his profile page and you will see pictures of his friends. Mouse over each image to see the person’s name. Like we did with Facebook, click on some of RossO49’s friends to add them as your friends.
Remember to check your gmail account in case someone has added you as a friend. This will also display on your sidebar as, e.g, “2 new follower requests”.
Thing 19. Tweet at least once a day for five days between Monday 8th - Friday 12th.
Why? To see twitter in action - it’s the only way to “get” it.
Mon 8th - Friday 12th is Twitter week. Twitter only really works when it has critical mass. Please tweet at least once a day and share something work related that you are doing. If you can’t do it that week, you may try it another week.
Enter text in the box under “What are you doing?” and select “update”.
IF YOU WANT MORE
- Add a picture to your profile.
- Work out how to “Direct message” someone.
- Use the ‘Help’ link to find out more stuff, e.g., how @replies work.
- Keep twittering
- Watch this video by librarian David Lee King about software people have written to do crazy things with twitter. i r fluffin yr twitterz: or, Twitter, part 2: the “fluff” (made over a year ago so some things may now be out of date)
