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Twitter is a microblogging platform used by millions worldwide to communicate public messages. Messages are constrained to 140 characters, and mostly public. In addition to putting information out to Twitter, you can use it as a research resource to search and keep an eye on what people are saying about you or things you care about. Overall you can do a lot with Twitter, but what you need to do today is sign up. Here’s a short video thanks to Common Craft:
Tasks for Today:
- Sign up for Twitter.
- Fill out user profile completely, including adding a photo.
- Use Twitter’s built-in tool to search through your inbox and find people that you have connected with in the past that are on Twitter. Chances are, there’s someone. “Follow” them. Follow @tibbon to follow me.
- Put out three Tweets (messages on Twitter). In the first, just say “Hi” and what you’re interested in. In the second, ask a short question as to something that you’ve been trying to figure out. In the third Tweet, tell us what you’re looking forward to in the next week (upcoming movie, job interview, or an event).
- Search for something you care about on Twitter. Maybe look up a company, a band, recent news, or something you’ve bought recently. See how much conversation there is out there?
Tomorrow and in the future:
- Send out at least one Tweet per day.
- Check out TwitScoop to see what everyone’s talking about.
- Use search to see if people are mentioning you.
- Follow people that follow you. Avoid following spammers.
- Don’t follow too many people. Once you follow more than 100 people, then following more than 10% than follow you looks bad and is a faux pas.
- Look at what others are doing an emulate them. This is a great environment to learn by example.
There’s a lot more to Twitter than just this, but these are things to do today and I will be covering more in the future. If you’re craving information today, Rebecca Corliss at Hubspot has put together an excellent free eBook on Twitter that covers it in-depth.
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