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Enhance your testing profile and stay informed by leveraging Twitter. Discover thought leaders, blog posts, and engage in discussions without spending all your time. Learn about hashtags, link accounts, and have fun following celebrities and trends. Be cautious, follow relevant testers, and take your Twitter usage to the next level.
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Test Tweeting Kim Engel @kengel100 #WeTest
Why Twitter? • Personal profile in the testing community • Access to current, relevant information about testing • Access to thought leaders in the community • Find links to new blog posts, youtube presentations, articles • Follow discussions
Time consuming? • Not every waking moment, every tweet • An hour here or there • Commuting • Read Later feature, queue up articles
What is a hashtag? • Topic • Try searching for these: • #WeTest • #Testing • #CAST2013 • #STWC2014 • #LetsTest
Tweet Something • For example, "I learned a lot tonight from @kengel100 at the #WeTestMeetup" • Find a tweet you like and Retweet it • 140 character limit • Just jump in, there's no right or wrong • Okay, there is a wrong, but it would have to pretty bad...
Link it up • Add your Twitteruser account to LinkedIn • Keep it professional • Separate personal account? • Separate accountsfor testing your application\website with Twitter when needed
Keep it fun! • All work and no play... • Follow some celebrities, comedians, athletes, TV shows, news, etc • @JustinBeiber has 42 million followers • Also popular Katy Perry, Ashton Kutscher, CNN, George Takei, Ricky Gervais, Oprah… • Check out Trending topics • Keeps you coming back to Twitter
Caution! • Be smart • Don't click links from people who joined yesterday and have no followers • Don't click links from any unknown accounts, even direct messages • You can only send private messages to people who follow you
What do I do? • twitter.com and sign up. Tonight! • Install app on your smartphone • Follow people • @Charrett • @JamesMarcusBach • @MichaelBolton • @KeithKlain • @WTANZ_ • The list goes on… see my ‘List’ of Test Leads! • Twitter will suggest new people to follow
Follow more people! • Why not follow people who follow you? • Search for Top Tester Tweeters • See who other testers are following • ‘Unfollow’ people at any time
Take it to the next level • Read blogs and tweet the authors • Write a blog, tweet links to your new blog posts • Privately ask friends to Retweet you • Tweet others and ask them to follow you! • Encourage your non-Twitter colleagues to sign up too
Questions? www.twitter.com @kengel100 #WeTest