What are you doing now? The Twitterfication of the Web Michael Sauers & Christa Burns Nebraska Library Commission
What is microblogging? The act of blogging that is: Short Fast Easy Mobile
Enter Twitter Answer the question “What are you doing now?” in 140 characters or less Follow friends Be followed Like IM but asynchronous No “status”, others don’t know if your paying attention
 
Create an account
Set up posting options
Design your home page
Post A post: “Tweet” Creating a post: “Tweeting” Methods via the Web (twitter.com) via a client (Twhirl) via a bookmarklet (TwitThis) via e-mail via IM (twitter) via SMS (40404) Blog-to-Twitter (twitterfeed) URL’s that extend past the 140 character limit are automatically turned into TinyURLs
Twitter.com
Twhirl
Twitter Vista Gadget
TwitThis
EmailTwitter.com
TWITTERFEED
Twitter commands @ username d  username   message nudge  username l:  location information follow  username leave  username block  username invite  phonenumber #hashtag
Direct messages
Add friends
Follow your friends Read your friends’ tweets via your Twitter homepage Read via a client Subscribe via RSS Receive via IM Receive tweets via SMS Graphical Twittervision Twitter/Google Maps mashup
Uses Ultra simple blogging Conferences Reference Questions News Traffic Weather Presidential Campaigning Web site updates Conversations Humor Characters
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NLC Reference
 
BBC News
Oregon Traffic
Boston Weather
Barack Obama
“ Darth Vader”
A Twitter conversation during the development of this slide show
 
 
 
Searching Twitter Content
Problems Twitterference So many SMS tweets that you can’t make a phone call. If it ever goes away, your content is gone Considered too distracting by some If you don’t participate, you won’t get anything out of it
7 TIPS TO A GOOD TWITTER EXPERIENCE Follow unto others @comment others Link to your stuff Don’t take non-responses personally Be patient Avoid addiction Use your name Source: http://meryl.net/2008/04/01/7-tips-to-a-good-twitter-experience/
http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/000932.html
Contact Information Michael Sauers Technology Innovation Librarian, Nebraska Library Commission [email_address] www.travelinlibrarian.info twitter.com/msauers Christa Burns OCLC Member Services Librarian, NEBASE / Nebraska Library Commission [email_address] christajoy.blogspot.com twitter.com/cjburns

What are you doing now? The Twitterfication of the Web

Editor's Notes

  • #2 Our presentation is going to be very ADD, just like Twitter is.
  • #5 “ So why has Twitter been so misunderstood? Because it's experiential. Scrolling through random Twitter messages can't explain the appeal. You have to do it – and more important, do it with friends.” -- Clive Thompson, Wired 15.07
  • #16 #CIL2008 Track @ http://hashtags.org/tag/cil2008/
  • #30 “ ok w/ connectivity level right now.”
  • #34 “ So why has Twitter been so misunderstood? Because it's experiential. Scrolling through random Twitter messages can't explain the appeal. You have to do it – and more important, do it with friends.” -- Clive Thompson, Wired 15.07
  • #35 Follow unto others as you would have them do unto you. @comment others to make the most of the experience. Link to your stuff — smartly . Frequently linking to your stuff leads to unfollows. Besides, it defeats tweet purpose. Don’t take non-responses personally . Conversations fly on Twitter, so people might miss it or simply receive too many @replies to respond to every single one. Be patient in getting the hang of Twitter. Twitter’s help is helpless and it has a few quirks for a simple app. Avoid addiction by taking care in using addicting apps like Twhirl and other cool Twittapps or else Twitter will suck you in for more time than you can afford. I curb addiction by checking in twice a day (start and end of day) and no in-between (except weekends). Use your name or else people won’t know who you are. I started with Content Maven and no face photo. Hey, I didn’t know better at the time.