Twitter

This lesson will explain Twitter and allow students to post tweets and follow other Twitter users.

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Explain

• Twitter is a social networking service that allows people to write short messages (called Tweets) to let others know what they are doing and what they are thinking
• members of Twitter can follow you if they’re interested in what you’re doing
• you can follow people, including famous people on Twitter, if you’re interested
• when someone tweets, all their followers will receive it 
• you can send or receive private tweets to anyone by using the direct message function 
• when you join Twitter, you get a Twitter address and interested parties can type in your Twitter address and look at your profile page to view your tweets.
• many companies and public figures use Twitter to communicate information to hundreds of interested people immediately, rather than sending emails

Activity - browse a Twitter profile page

Ask your student to go to www.ageaction.ie and click on the Twitter link on the homepage

Explore the Age Action Twitter homepage

• follow button
• tweets
• following/followers
• favourites
• sign up

Explore the followers page

• click on the Followers tab
• click on the name of one of the followers
• click on view full profile and view their recent tweets