1. Adrienne Royer May 19, 2009 How 140 Characters Are Changing Communications

2. What Is Twitter?

Twitter is a micro-blogging, social networking platform that asks users to answer, What Are You Doing? in 140 characters or less.

Launched in late 2006

Allows people to share breaking news, links, information and reach out to community/customers

3. Twitters Flexibility

Easy to Update:

• Text Message from cell phone

• iPhone or Blackberry applications

• Computer

• E-mail

• Instant Message

• Facebook

• Blog

• Any other web-based platform

4. Why Is Twitter Different?

Twitter uses several different technologies to operate including:

RSS : a group of web-based feeds that standardize blog posts, podcasts, web sites, etc. and syndicate them into an aggregator in order to share information and allow readers or users to know that the site has been updated

Texting : a short, 160-character electronic message sent via a cell phone using the Short Message Service (SMS)

5. Who Is On Twitter? As of early 2009, Twitter had more than 10 million users.comScore Media Metrix. April 9, 2009 6. Whos on Twitter? Twitter is most popular with 45-54 year-old demographic. 7. How to Use Twitter All you need is an e-mail and user name. 8. Find Friends Find people through e-mail, invite friends or search by keyword. 9. How to Tweet

Give an update in 140 characters or less.

Reply to someone: use an @ and their username

10. Say What?

Tweet:

(noun) the short 140 character message that you send on twitter

(verb) the act of sending a message on Twitter i.e. to tweet. For example: @adrienneroyer was tweeting earlier.

Tweeple, Tweeps or Twitterers:Twitter friends

*You tweet on Twitter. You dont twitter on Twitter.

11. Mobile Twitter

Twitter is opened to 3 rdparty applications. Allows you to maximize the Twitter community

Add to your cell phone, iPhone or BlackBerry

• Add SMS through twitter.com

• Tweetie for iPhone and TwitterBerry for BlackBerrries

12. Maximize Twitter

Splitweet

Manage multiple Twitter accounts

Track key words in the Twitterverse

Manager your online brand

Developed for Corporate Twitter accounts

13. Maximize Twitter

Tweetdeck

Track hot topics on Twitter

Split friends into groups

Organize tweets

Other Twitter apps:

Twirl

TwitterFox (for Firefox browser)

Brian Solis Twitter Tools for Community and Communications Professionals

http://www.briansolis.com/2008/10/twitter-tools-for-community-and.html

14. Why Should You Use Twitter?

Social media is aboutbuildingrelationshipsnot sellinga brand or product.

Twitter is one of the best social media tools for building relationships.

15. Traditiona/Broadcast Model 16. Social Media Model 17. Success Stories from Twitter

Charity: Water Twestivals

@comcastcares & @zappos customer service

@CDCemergency updates about H1N1

@girlsincchatt

18. How to Effectively Use Twitter?

Essentially, Twitter tracks the worlds conversations.

For the first time, organizations are capable of having one-on-one conversations on a mass scale.

Best social media tool for building relationships with key stakeholders, communities, opinion leaders and media.

19. How To Build Relationships?

Use Twitter to build create honest, transparent, 2-way conversations with stakeholders

Dont just send out press releases on Twitter.

• Share information, breaking news, updates

• • Ex. @FDArecalls

• Answer questions

• Scan for concerns or questions on publics radar and address them directly

• Ask questions!

• Reach out to people with similar focuses or interests

20. How To Build Relationships?

Real people use Twitter and expect a real person to be handling your account.

Eliminate corporate-speak or PR-language from tweets

21. Twitter Tools

Twitter Search :http://search.twitter.com/

Allows anyone to search for tweets with specific keywords

Hashtags : adding the # allows twitter to aggregate similar tweets into one feed

#breakingnews, #lost, #oprah, #obama

www.hashtags.orgtracks all hashtags

Trending Topics

Tracks the days top hashtags

www.twitter.com

22. Twitter Tools

Thousands of 3 rd -party Twitter tools exist to monitor Twitter and build your online community.

Twitter tool listings:

Brian Solis Twitter Tools for Community and Communications Professionals

http://www.briansolis.com/2008/10/twitter-tools-for-community-and.html

http://www.longest.com/2008/10/28/top-twitter-tools/

23. Measuring Success

Monitor Twitter and online mentions through free web-services

• Google alerts (i.e. @adrienneroyer)

• Socialmentions.com

• Twitter alerts

Establish goals of friends or followers

User similar metrics to PR measurement

Monitor blog hits, tweets and Facebook mentions

24. Questions

Blog: Nonprofit Land

www.adrienneroyer.com

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Twitter: @adrienneroyer