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Twitter for Researchers
Emma Thompson or...@LibraryEmma@LivUniLibrary (with others)
Choose a name
• Not too long – makes it hard for others to retweet your messages
• Use capitals to break up your name @LivUniLibrary
• Photo/Logo essential
Send some tweets
• A link to a website you find useful, “I’m just testing twitter” ...whatever
• People are more likely to follow you if you are an “active” user
3. Follow!It’s not stalking, honest...
Follow colleagues, institutions, funders – the library... and see who they follow
Many will follow you back
Managing Twitter
Create Columns for :
different accounts (personal and institutional)
search terms e.g. “sydney jones”
Hashtags for conferences, themes etc #phdchat
Is Twitter increasing impact?“altmetrics”
Altmetric Bookmarklet for Chrome, FireFox and Safarihttp://www.altmetric.com/bookmarklet.php
Could Social Media “buzz” increase citations?
Eysenbach GCan Tweets Predict Citations? Metrics of Social Impact Based on Twitter and Correlation with Traditional Metrics of Scientific ImpactJ Med Internet Res 2011;13(4):e123URL: http://www.jmir.org/2011/4/e123/doi: 10.2196/jmir.2012PMID: 22173204
Hashtags
• Click to follow them e.g. #phdchat• Make your own – e.g. for a
conference• Sometimes used for emphasis
Sharing Links
HootSuite, Tweetdeck and now Twitter.com shorten links automatically
Over to you...
Create an account on http://www.twitter.com
• Search for Key Journals/Institutions/People in your area and follow
Thanks...
image from twittermoma.jpg
Want to know more?
LSE Social Media Blog http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2011/09/29/twitter-guide/
Prof. Dorothy Bishop, Oxford (Developmental Neuropsychology)
http://deevybee.blogspot.com/2011/06/gentle-introduction-to-twitter-for.html
More links and blogs:http://www.scoop.it/t/twitter-for-academics