Twitter EDU

By David Truss

Your One-Stop-All-You-Need-To-Know-Guide to Twitter.

“The hardest part of Twitter is that it does not have a friendly entry point. Until you develop a network, it actually takes a bit of work to make it meaningful and rewarding.”

If you follow along and tweet as you learn, this book will make your entry into Twitter much easier, and enjoyable! It has best practice tips, tricks and explanations that will assist you in building a great network much faster than you could do on your own.

Here is an excerpt from the introduction to the book:
"I started Twitter in November of 2007. I jumped in rather unenthusiastically. Why the lack of enthusiasm? Because at the time I wasn’t updating my status regularly on Facebook and I thought to myself, “Why would I use a tool that only did one part of what Facebook did, when I already don’t use that part of Facebook?” However, I was blogging regularly and several educational bloggers that I admired were blogging over and over again about ‘the power of Twitter’. So, while November of 2007 may make me seem like an early adopter to you, I was dragged in late in comparison to my blogging friends.

What happened next was amazing."

Filled with 'live' links to help you Tweet and Retweet as you read the book, Twitter EDU makes learning to use Twitter an engaging experience!

Chapters:
• Introduction
• The All You Need To Know Twitter Guide
• Why Twitter?
• I’m new, where do I start?
• What tools should I use?
• I’m struggling to understand the value.
• Following, following back and using Lists
• Replies
• Beware of SPAM!
• Direct Messages
• #Hashtags (and Twitter Chats)
• Lurking and ReTweeting
• Other things to know
• Review and Thank You!

• Language: English
• Publisher: David Truss
• Release date: Jan 6, 2018
• ISBN: 9781370054947

David Truss

A husband, a parent... An educator, a student... A thinker, a dreamer... An agent of change. I'm an educator in the suburbs of Vancouver, Canada. I'm married with 2 daughters. I'm a blogger, podcaster, and now author. I mostly write and think about education, technology and learning. My first book, Twitter EDU, is a how-to-get-started-on-Twitter guide and I'm giving it away for free. Enjoy.

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TWITTER EDU

Your One-Stop-All-You-Need-To-Know-Guide to Twitter

David Truss

Copyright © 2018 by David Truss

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TWITTER EDU

Your One-Stop-All-You-Need-To-Know-Guide to Twitter

David Truss

Acknowledgements

I wrote this ebook using Scrivener, which isn’t on my work computer, so all the time that I spent writing Twitter EDU was time away from my family. Thanks to my wife Ann, and my kids Cassie & Katie. Also, weaved throughout this book are examples, quotes, stories, and images that include people in my Twitter network. They made the time commitment to create this book worthwhile. I wrote this ebook in part as a thank you to the amazing community of people I regularly connect with on Twitter.

Cover photo: David Truss

Super Tweet image: ardinoface on fiverr

I’d also like to acknowledge and thank you for reading! Please feel free to share a comment or leave me feedback. (I ignore product solicitations, link-back requests, guest post requests and the like. Otherwise I do my best to respond to everyone.)

You can also do the following to engage and interact with me… on Twitter:

Tweet or share this eBook~

And/or Follow me on Twitter~

And/or Reply to me on Twitter.

Or share this book on:

Facebook

LinkedIn

Google+

Pinterest.

Enjoy!

~ Dave Truss

Prologue

This book is about a 2-hour read. It was designed as an interactive book, where you will ‘Tweet as you learn’. If you do this, you are pretty much guaranteed to understand Twitter far better than you did before reading Twitter EDU. That said, you will still need at least a few more hours engaging with Twitter before you truly reap the benefits of reading this book. Of course that time will be used more effectively after reading and ‘playing along’ with me. Enjoy the book and your tweeting, retweeting and learning will get you to the point where Twitter becomes valuable to you far faster than you thought possible!

But before we get ahead of ourselves, let’s focus on reading this ebook:

You chose to read Twitter EDU to learn about Twitter. If you are like most readers today, you are probably reading this ebook on a mobile device. Before you get going, know that the ‘mysupertweet’ and ‘superquote’ links that I share, for you to engage with Twitter while you read, do not work with all mobile devices. These links are designed to create a pre-written tweet for you, so that you don’t have to write anything, but the mobile version of Twitter doesn’t recognize them and so the link will only open Twitter, not the pre-written tweet.

I have three suggestions for you:

1. If you can, read this book on a laptop and take full advantage of the mysupertweet and superquote links.

2. If you must use a mobile device, challenge yourself to not only use the supertweet links (without the ‘my’), but also to write and share your own tweets as you read. Or, add the ‘mysupertweet’ or ‘superquote’ web addresses into a laptop browser, even though you are reading the book on a mobile device.

3. Whether you do (1) or (2) above, spend the time reading this book also engaging on Twitter, and make the book an active learning experience.

Engage your fingers as well as your mind… Tweet as your learn with Twitter EDU.

Twitter EDU

Your One-Stop-All-You-Need-To-Know-Guide to Twitter

Introduction:

I started Twitter in November of 2007. I jumped in rather unenthusiastically. Why the lack of enthusiasm?  Because at the time I wasn’t updating my status regularly on Facebook and I thought to myself, Why would I use a tool that only did one part of what Facebook did, when I already don’t use that part of Facebook? However, I was blogging regularly and several educational bloggers that I admired were blogging over and over again about ‘the power of Twitter’. So, while November of 2007 may make me seem like an early adopter to you, I was dragged in late in comparison to my blogging friends.

What happened next was amazing. Suddenly I found that some very interesting people were sharing resources that I would never have found had I not been on Twitter. This wasn’t the era of smartphones, and so I’d often read tweets early in the morning and then after working all day as a Grade 8 teacher, I’d go home and search for the last tweet that I saw in my twitter stream, and make sure that I didn’t miss a single tweet from the people I followed. I can remember the early years when twitter would be overloaded and the whole site would go down. There would be a picture of a ‘fail whale’ up instead of my Twitter stream and it would be agonizing to wait until Twitter came back up so that I could see what I missed.

Eventually, the whale disappeared, and Twitter became much more stable. Eventually, I stopped trying to read every tweet that came my way, my twitter stream got way too big. And, Eventually, twitter became a resource that fed me far more than I could ever feed it, and it continues to satisfy my appetite for learning over a decade later.

I recognize that not everyone will use Twitter the same way I do. Your reason for wanting to use twitter may range from learning, to networking and connecting to people in your industry, to self-promotion, to keeping up with the news, to entertainment, to some personal way that I simply haven’t thought of. No matter what