Murdoch University Library 23 Things 2008

Thing 18, 19 - Join Twitter, Tweet for a Week

Thing 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”.

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”.

• 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 i r fluffin yr twitterz: or, Twitter, part 2: the “fluff” (made over a year ago so some things may now be out of date)

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Things 16-17 - Join Facebook, add Facebook friends

(many thanks to Kathryn G. whose 2007 blog was shamelessly ripped off to create this one!)

Thing 16: Join Facebook and add a profile

Why? Over 100 million people are there. Find out what it is about.

Thing 17: Add at least 3 friends and join a Facebook Group

Why? To understand how a social network works

GETTING STARTED

There is a good 10 minute overview of the history of Facebook and the basics on Youtube.

Alternatively, Kathryn made a 4 minute screencast for this exercise in last year’s “23 Things”. It is very pacy, so she suggests you first watch it all the way through. Then play it, pause it, do the bit just described, play a bit more, do that bit etc. Note that there have been a number of changes to Facebook since last year so this wont be exactly as you see it today.
The screencast shows you how to do more things than the exercises require. Those that are part of the exercises are marked with a * .

1. * Join
2. * Create a profile
3. * Search for a friend
4. * Add a friend
5. * Look at a friend’s friends to find friends
6. * Accept friendship
7. * View a friend’s’ profile
8. *Join a Facebook group
9. Write on a friend’s wall
10. Add a Facebook Application

IF YOU WANT MORE:

Write on a friend’s wall or Add a Facebook Application.

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