College of Agriculture Twitter Tutorial
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College of Ag Twitter Tutorial
Building and Audience
Following other twitter users is the best way to have access to information and to build your audience The more people you follow, the more
people will follow you! A good place to start is liking users
associated with Auburn University Then find users that are in your area of
interest In this case, agriculture
User @FollowFarmer has a list of farmers and “agvocates” that blog and tweet
Go through their list of “Following” to find other users you may want to follow
This will give you access to their tweets in your twitter feed You can take any information you like
from these tweets and retweet them to your followers
Following:
Each user has a bio under their name. Skim through the bios and determine if you would like to follow them.
Following is as easy as clicking the “Follow” button!
The best way to find people to follow is to see who successful twitter accounts are following.
Do this by going to a user’s profile and clicking the “Following” link
How Often Should I Tweet?
Twitter is a fast paced social media tool
Tweeting 3-5 times a day is recommended every post is time stamped, so daily
tweeting is essential to stay current Pushing posts from Facebook can
help you reach your 3-5 posts easily
Tweet Content
Use twitter to Make announcements Ask questions Brag about the college Provide information (fun facts, statistics,
etc.) Link to press releases
https://twitter.com/UGA_CollegeofAg
“@” mentions links another Twitter user within your message. They can see you are talking about them. Using “@” can increase traffic to both pages.
The @username is also a hyperlink that users can click on to see a preview of that user’s twitter feed.
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1. Announcement of College Event possible link to press release or order page
2. Announcement of State-wide event
3. Bragging about the college link to photo
4. Sharing fun facts with interactive video
5. Recap of speakers that came to the college link to full story
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1. Networking with another user with “@usernames” and hashtags
2. Interactive tweet encourages users to retweet
3. Announcement of time sensitive event
4. Announcement of future event with link
5. Invitation to time sensitive event
Tweet Content
Take information from the web: Wire Eagle OAnews AgChat.org Ag Hill Update
Summarize the information in 140 characters or less
Provide the link to the original website so users can read more if they choose
Tweet Content
Mentioning other users (@username) and using hashtags (#hashtags) in your tweets can help bring traffic to your twitter feed This helps increase followers
The hashtag “#auburnag” is the hashtag we want to use for anything related to the college of agriculture.Hashtags create a database of every tweet with that hashtag in it.
The hashtag is also hyperlinked, so you can click on it to see a feed of only #auburnag tweets.
Tweet Content Alternatives
In addition to writing your own tweets, Twitter allows you to “retweet” what other users have tweeted.
This allows you to share a wide variety of information with your followers. It also increases traffic to your twitter
feed.
Retweeting
There are two ways to retweet a post to your followers
Method 1 is an easier and quicker method
Method 2 provides a way to retweet a post if a user has privacy settings on their tweets
Retweeting Method 1
1. When you put your cursor over a tweet, it will become shaded and the options of• Expand• Reply• Retweet • Favorite
will appear as a link.2. When you click rewteet, this box will appear:
Retweeting Method 1
The tweet is now part of your feed to your followers, even though they may not follow “Zac Lee @general__lee_” they can still see his post
This green symbol indicates a retweeted post not a post you wrote yourself
Retweeting Method 2
Many users have their privacy settings such that you cannot retweet their posts using the retweet button in Method 1.
Notice how the options at the bottom do not include retweet.
But, you can still retweet this message using Method 2!
1. Copy the tweet “Weird weather on the plains. Does misting require a rain jacket?”2. Paste into the compose a new Tweet box
3. In front of the copied tweet type RT (stands for retweet) and then the @username, in this case @AshleyCulpepper
4. Press the “Tweet” button and post has been retweeted!
Anatomy of a Tweet
Hashtag: indicated by a “#” in front of a word or set of words with no spaces between them
Picture link: the way to embed a picture in a tweet. The picture associated with this link can be seen if you click on the tweet.
Username: To tag someone in a twitter post, put the “@” symbol in front of their username