SOCIAL MEDIA FOR FESTIVALSNext steps with Twitter – creating Tweets

HOW TO CREATE TWEETS

Plain text (see Setting up a Twitter Account) With a link With a photograph RT others – what to check first Direct Messages

SEND A TWEET WITH A LINK

COMPOSE THE TWEET

HOW DOES IT LOOK ON TWITTER?

USING A LINK SHORTENER

USE A LINK SHORTENER: GOO.GL

TWEETING A PHOTOGRAPH

SEE THE PHOTOGRAPH ON TWITTER

TWITTER HOME PAGE – SEE IMAGES

YOUR IMAGES ALSO IN A SLIDESHOW

RETWEET GOOD CONTENT

Look at this post to decide if you will RT

SHORT LINK – OPENS WEB PAGE

Twitter shortens any links you may include in your Tweet

You can also track which Tweets are effective using stats for your link

Beware, not all links are good

If you are suspicious, don’t click through

THIS LINK LED TO AN ARTICLE

GOOD QUESTION! HOW OFTEN?

You will find your own style Depends on your objectives Once a day? Once an hour? At particular times of the day/week? Start Tweeting, and work out what works for

you

DIRECT MESSAGING (DM) ON TWITTER

Direct messages can be sent to people if they follow you

Way of having conversations which you wish to take out of the public eye

Example “DM me your email address” Also used by some to auto-message new

followers Must be wary of spam messages with bad

links

DIRECT MESSAGES FROM TWITTER

DIRECT MESSAGES (2)

WRITING DIRECT MESSAGES

BEWARE!

Which of these DMs would you delete immediately?

Spam spreads through people clicking on bogus links

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