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.
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
