Twitter Workshop






what is twitter?







Launched in 2006


“Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables users to send and read  'tweets', which are text messages limited to 140 characters”





why is it important?




500 MILLION REGISTERED USERS IN 2012, 

WHO POSTED 340 MILLION TWEETS PER DAY



Most followed accounts worldwide








1.6 billion search queries per day




Twitter in Mexico

 

most followed accounts in mexico










how to use twitter?


Setting up an acount



  • Corporate accounts
  • Personal accounts



User name

Password 

Photograph

Bio









Director, British Council Mexico. Views are mine, not the British Council. RTs/follows are not endorsements.

DF · britishcouncil.org/mexico




Follwing

Followers



Tweeting


Text

Photos

Location

 

Writing for twitter



mention= @

hashtag= #

Trending Topic= TT

Direct Message: DM

 






Writing for twitter

 





Immediacy
Opportunity
Conversational
Opinion
Personality

Writing for twitter






Twitter jargon


ff

tbt

bot

troll


full glossary:

https://support.twitter.com/articles/166337-the-twitter-glossary#

British Council Mexico

By Daniel Chávez

British Council Mexico

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