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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 that you follow. And...
What to tweet? Twitter only allows you to send 140 characters, which doesn’t seem much when we are used to writing at length about complex ideas. That doesn’t mean that Twitter is superficial or...
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...
Introduction to the #YSJ10DoT game! 10 Days of Twitter, or #YSJ10DoT, starts on Monday 18th April 2016, so there are a few days left to sign up if you want to participate along with other users....
Welcome to Ten Days of Twitter, or as it’s called in twitterspeak, #YSJ10DoT ! YSJ10DoT will take place from Monday 18 April – Friday 29 April 2016. Ever wondered if Twitter might be a...
This iteration of the programme is now over, but you can still work through the materials in your own time or, if you’d like the experience of participating in a community of people all...
Our last day! Hopefully by now you are comfortable with Twitter basics and have explored a couple of tools and approaches to organising and curating content. Along the way, you will have undoubtedly seen...
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 lose...
Over the last 7 days, you may have found that as you continue to use Twitter, you come across more and more interesting people to follow and your following grows exponentially. Keeping track of...
Hashtags (using the # symbol) is where Twitter really gets interesting. Basically, the hashtag is a form of metadata. A # in front of a word signals that it is a keyword of some sort,...
