Twitter for Researchers

Emma Thompson or...@LibraryEmma@LivUniLibrary (with others)

Go to http://twitter.com/search

Try searching for “liverpool university”

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...

Any Questions?emma.thompson@liv.ac.uk

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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