What is Twitter and why should you use it?
Twitter is a "microblogging" system that allows you to send and receive short posts called tweets. Tweets can be up to 140 characters in length and include links to relevant websites and resources. Twitter users are following other users. When you follow someone, you can see their tweets in your Twitter Timeline. You can follow people and organizations with similar academic and personal interests to yours. Create your own tweets and retweet information tweeted by others. Retweeting means being able to share information with a large number of
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Why use Twitter?
Twitter has become increasingly popular with academics as well as students, policymakers, politicians and the general public. Many users struggled to understand what Twitter is and how they could use it, but it has now become the social media platform of choice for many.
The snappy nature of tweets means that Twitter is widely used by smartphone users who don't want to read long content items on-screen.
Twitter allows you to:
easily promote your research, for example by providing links to your blog stories, journal articles and news items
reach a large number of people quickly through tweets and retweets
follow the work of other experts in your field
build relationships with experts and other followers
keep up-to-date with the latest news and developments, and share it with others instantly
reach new audiences
seek feedback about your work and give feedback to others
follow and contribute to discussions on events, for example conferences that you can't attend in person
express who you are as a person.
What are you tweeting about?
The type of information you Tweet depends on whether you are tweeting as an individual, an organization, a project, or a group.
If you have a personal Twitter account, you can mix tweets about your research with tweets about other interests, such as hobbies, news, or general observations. Insight into the non-academic aspects of your life helps make you an interesting person.
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Examples of what to tweet:
Details of new publications or resources you have created
News articles reporting your research
Links to blog posts you have written
About conferences you have attended Thoughts You are participating
Invite questions for feedback
Interesting news you found
Interesting pictures
Reply to other people's tweets
Retweet other people's tweets
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