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S kills : writing tweets

Writing tweets. S kills : writing tweets C oncepts : application program interface (API), ecosystem, Twitter as a platform for developing applications. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. Where does this topic fit?.

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S kills : writing tweets

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  1. Writing tweets Skills: writing tweets Concepts: application program interface (API), ecosystem, Twitter as a platform for developing applications This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.

  2. Where does this topic fit? • Internet concepts • Applications • Technology • Implications • Internet skills • Application development • Content creation • User skills

  3. Tweets are very short documents 140

  4. Writing tweets

  5. Common Internet abbreviations LOL = laughing out loud U = you FWIW = for what it’s worth IMHO = in my humble opinion BTW = by the way & = and

  6. Shortening URLs The original URL: http://www.csudh.edu/studentaffairs/financialaid/faq.shtml#apply_for_scholarships 81 characters The shortened URL: http://bit.ly/djeREW 20 characters I shortened the URL using the service at http://bit.ly.

  7. Know the source of a shortened URL http://bit.ly/9dLHk5

  8. Make a first draft, then cut

  9. Every sentence and word counts Read out loud Get feedback from someone else

  10. Including a link to a video from YouTube or elsewhere

  11. Tweet within YouTube

  12. Edited tweet, ready to send

  13. The Twitter API +

  14. The Twitter ecosystem

  15. Summary

  16. Self-study questions What would happen to links to URLs shortened using the bit.ly service if the company went out of business? What is the most common purpose of a tweet that contains a link to a Web page? Like many Web services, Twitter has an open API to encourage others to develop applications which use their data. Find an example of a web service that uses Google maps.

  17. Resources • Post on tweet length: • http://cis471.blogspot.com/2010/06/twitter-writing-style-improves-quickly.html • Twitter feed for current events pertinent to our class • http://www.twitter.com/larrypress • Twitter ecosystem • http://www.squidoo.com/twitterapps

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