twitter training for the world development movement
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How to use Twitter for campaigners at the World Development MovementTRANSCRIPT
Twitter!Pontus Westerberg, WDM Web Officer
What is Twitter?
What is Twitter?
But also…
Some numbers
1 billion tweets sent every week
300 million total accounts
155 tweets sent every day
50 million active users
1.5 million accounts following more than 500 people
460,000 new accounts every day
So how do you use it?
Followother users to see their tweets
See their tweets in your feed
@mentionother users to have conversations
.@mentionif you want everyone to see it
Retweet (RT) anything interesting
Direct messages (DM) are for private conversations
Hashtags group tweets
Share interesting
links
Organise people into
lists
So how do we campaign with it?
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Amnesty campaign
Amnesty campaign
Amnesty campaign
Amnesty campaign
Amnesty campaign
Amnesty campaign
@BPglobalPR
@BPglobalPR
@BPglobalPR
@BPglobalPR
@BPglobalPR
@BPglobalPR
@BPglobalPR
Kagame vs. Ian Birrell
Kagame vs. Ian Birrell
Other great things!
Speak directly with our supporters
Become an ‘expert’ in your field
Meet great people (yes in real life too)
Be the first to find out about news
Share your content
Learn new things
Get your questions answered
Protests#chisinau
#iranelection
#demo2010
#dayx
#ukuncut
#jan25
#syria
#acampadasol
#syntagma
How do you get started?
1. Setup your account
2. Find at least 50 interesting people or orgs to follow
3. Spend at least 30 minutes a day on Twitter for 10 days
4. Dowload an app on your phone
5. Get Tweetdeck
6. Don’t forget to tweet
How do you get started?
Twitter is not like Facebook.
Don’t just follow your friends or people you already know.
Follow people with similar interests.
You can follow whoever you like.
Some accounts I follow@nick_dearden75
@jonathanglennie
@nishmadoshi
@jazcummins
@georgemonbiot
@falseecon
@ukuncut
@pennyred
@paullewis
@brghtgreen
@gdndevelopment
@geecologist
@stevebridger
@paulakuhumbu
@johannhari101
@naomiaklein
@chakrabortty
@libcon
@paulmasonnews
@danmcquillan
@shrikydinky
@ethanz
@hackofalltrades
@meowtree
@adamramsay
@timdavies
@kevincurley
@kanter
Just dive in!