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About twitter

- Twitter helps you create and share ideas and information instantly, without barriers

- It is one of the best way to connect with people, express yourself and discover what's happening

Tweeter usage:

• 284 million monthly active users • 500 million Tweets are sent per day

• 80% of Twitter active users are on mobile • 77% of accounts are outside the U.S. • Twitter supports 35+ languages

Company facts:

• 3,600 employees in offices around the world

• 50% of employees are engineers • Incorporated April 19, 2007 • At Twitter HQ we consume 1,440 hard-boiled eggs weekly.

• We also drink 585 gallons of coffee per week.

Twitter profits goes to many fundraiser

- Girls at the nonprofit Oasis for Girls received a graduation gift from Twitter - Serving San Francisco's homeless families

to design a learning center - Marking Earth Day close to home

- #FridayforGood: Get out and do

- Hunger Action Month

The Twitter Glossary

Vocabulary & terminology used to talk about features and aspects of Twitter

> A Tweet is an expression of a moment or idea. It can contain text, photos, and videos.

What is a Tweet??

-> What is a Tweet??

Millions of Tweets are shared in real time, every day

“@” sign

is used to call out usernames in Tweets: "Hello @twitter!"

People will use your @username to mention you in Tweets, send you a message or link to your profile.

@username- Is how you're identified on Twitter

- It is always preceded immediately by the @ symbol.

For instance, Katy Perry is @katyperry.

-> @username

BIO

Your bio is a short (up to 160 characters) personal description that appears in your profile that serves to characterize your personal on Twitter.

-> BIO

Hashtag “#”

People use the hashtag symbol # before a relevant keyword or phrase (no spaces) in their Tweet to categorize those Tweets & help them show more easily in twitter search

Clicking on a hash tagged word in any message shows you all other Tweets marked with that keyword

-> Hashtag “#”

Hashtags can occur anywhere in the Tweet – at the beginning, middle, or end

-> Hashtags “#”

Direct message

- Have private conversations with people you follow who also follow you

- Messages have a 140-character limit and can contain text, hashtags, links, photos and video

-> Direct message

Discover

Personalized content tailored to your interests

Favorite

- Indicates that you liked a specific Tweet

- You can find all of your favorite Tweets by clicking on the favorites link on your profile page

-> Favorite

Follow

- The Follow button to follow (or unfollow) anyone on Twitter at any time

- When you follow someone, you will see their Tweets in your Home stream

-> Follow

-> Follow

- Follow count

This count reflects how many people you follow and how many follow you

- These numbers are found on your Twitter profile.

-> Follow

Home

Home is your real-time stream of Tweets from those you follow.

Mention

- You can mention by including the @ sign followed directly by their username

- Refers to Tweets in which your @username was included.

-> Mention

Reply

- Reply by clicking the "reply" button next to the Tweet you'd like to respond to.

-> Reply

Retweet - RT

The act of sharing another user's Tweet to all of your followers by clicking on the Retweet button

-> Retweet - RT

Trends

A Trend is a topic or hashtag determined algorithmically to be one of the most popular on Twitter at that moment

- You can choose to tailor Trends based on your location and who you follow

-> Trends

Technology for “autism”Everyday new technology is changing our lives in ways we never imagined.

For individuals with autism, some new technologies can improve communication, assist in the development of social skills, and enhance the ability to learn

Own Experience

I tried to implement “Twitter” as an education tool with one of my autistic child, by asking him “what do you want” and he must answer “orally” and then “writing it” on twitter as a tweet.

Example: I asked him “what do you want?” he said “I want to eat breakfast” and he write the sentence as a tweet.

-> Own Experience

Before he posted the tweet, I asked him to take the picture of his breakfast and to tweet it.Due to my experience with the kid using this tool it was successful tool which can be applied with autism.

Autism Tweets

-> Autism Tweets

-> Autism Tweets

-> Autism Tweets