Twitter+-+how+to.

=Welcome to Twitter:=

1. **Set up your Twitter account.** You should use your own name, not a nickname or a nom-de-plume. 2. **Set up your Twitter profile.** - as you begin to follow people or be followed, always check that people who you follow have a completed profile 3. Find some people to follow. - @SolitaryIdea - @AWMemorial - Australian War Memorial - @CPOACT - Chief Police Officer ACT - @RealTimeWWII - WW2 Tweets from 1943 4. **How to use the 'favourite' and 'retweet' buttons.** - to Favourite something is not to say you like it as in Facebook. When you Favourite a tweet, you are archiving it for your own use later. - to Retweet means that you think something is worthy of sharing with those who follow you. You can Retweet just the original tweet or you can also add your comment to the retweet. 5. **Using hashtags.** - the hashtag is a way of joining in and then following a conversation. For example, if I am watching the Tour de France live and want to chat with other tweeters who are also watching the TDF, I would use #tdf2017 or #sbstdf. - using a unique hashtag means that you are only chatting with other people using that unique hashtag. There is little danger of it being picked up by time- wasters or trollers. - hashtags to follow #journalismisnotacrime 6.**Tweeting - 140 characters or less.** - this is a really good way to make succinct notes, to record impressions of an event or to make a note of a website mentioned in a speech etc. - you do not need to be following people to join in a hashtag conversation. 7. We will be using tweets as a way to make notes on the documentaries we watch. All students will be expected to live tweet using an unique hastag during the documentary - this is called using a back channel and commonly happens at conferences or public presentations. The hashtag will be decided upon just before the documentary.You can follow the tweets at the same time as watching the documentary. 8. **Collating the tweets.** - we will be collating the tweets using a program called Storify. By searching for the unique hashtag we used, we can find the tweets sent during the lesson and then add those tweets to a 'story'. This means all the class notes and questions will be in one place, available for us to read, to discuss and/or answer the questions asked.

How to be safe on Twitter:
1. Avoid giving away personal details. As you can see from my profile, there is little to identify who or where I live or work. If people ask for that information, block and report them immediately. 2. Don't follow people who do not have a profile. If there is a profile but what they have written does not interest you, don't follow them. It is not important how many people you follow or how many follow you. What is important is the quality of the information you are getting. 3. Don't follow people who don't put in a profile picture. The picture need not be of you, but you should replace the egg/bird or you may not be able to converse with others. 4. Block and report any offensive tweet or tweet that you think is inappropriate. Click on the username, go to the little cogwheel which is settings and click that - block or report/block. 5. Mute button - if there is something happening in the world that you do not want to have appear in your timeline, you can mute it. - Settings - Notifications - Mute 6. Beware of tweetbots - these are automated Twitter accounts that will follow you and try to get you to follow them. They are computer generated, and people use them to bolster their twitter profiles. Check the profile of the person who wants you to follow them. If you're interested, follow; if not, don't.