The fundamentals you’ll need to knowThe fundamentals you’ll need to know

Twitter is an information network. Millions of people, organizations, and businesses use it to

discover and share new information.

• 370,000 new sign-ups daily • 95,000,000 Tweets per day • 175,000,000 registered user

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• Mention (or @ ‘at’ reply)• Retweet (old & new)• Message (or DM)• Hashtag

• Twitterverse• Failwhale• Tweeple• FF or Follow Friday• Tweet chat

• Reach a large audience• Gain new following• Find sources• Find news• Direct access to politicians, celebrities,

athletes

• Twitter Lists• Twitter Applications• Alerts

• There is so much information, you can’t possibly hear through the noise

• Twitter Lists let you categorize and organize people you follow Consider Twitter lists for• politicians who tweet• Journalists that cover a certain beat• Topical keyword lists

• http://twitter.com/GCITweets/gannett-sports

Journalism-Centric

• Twitter.com• Tweetdeck• Seesmic• Hootsuite

Twitter.com

Tweetdeck

Seesmic Desktop

Hootsuite

Twitter for iPhone Tweetdeck for iPhone Seesmic for iPhone

• Topify• Pu.ly• Nutshellmail• Tweetbeep• AlertThingy

Topify

Pu.ly

Nutshellmail

• http://search.twitter.com

Trending topics

• Listorious• Twellow• WeFollow• Twitter Chat Directory• Oneforty.com

Listorious

Twellow

WeFollow

Oneforty

• Sign up at Twitter.com• Do some searches• Follow some lists and/or create your own

• http://twitter.com/#!/verified/world-leaders• http://twitter.com/#list/CNN/anchors-and-

reporters• http://twitter.com/#!/politicians/• http://tweetcongress.org/• http://www.mediaontwitter.com/• http://www.breakingtweets.com/• http://www.twitterjournalism.com/

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