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Twitter Assignment

Your Twitter assignment:

  • If you have not yet joined Twitter, join Twitter.
  • Create a profile. In either your user name or bio (or both), use your real name. (And be sure you have filled out the bio!) Replace the Twitter egg avatar for your profile with a picture that represents you, either a picture of you or something that others can use to identify you.
  • For the “Website” in your bio, enter your WordPress blog page.
  • Make your profile public. if you already have a twitter account that is private and wish to keep it that way, create a new account for this class.
  • Find and follow all members (students and professor) of our class. This #cceng380 list might help (Use this Twitter Help Center article “How to Use Twitter Lists,” if you run into any trouble or are confused.). And if you don’t see your account on that list, let me know!).
  • Get into the habit of checking Twitter at least once a day.
  • Post Tweets regularly. At least 5 times per week (and not all at once).
  • Read “The Difference Between Thin and Thick Tweets,” by David Silver
  • Make sure your Tweets are a combination of “thick” and “thin.”

A few general guidelines for fulfilling your Twitter assignment:

  • Be interesting: post things that other people are going to want to read.
  • Be interested: read what other people post. Find and follow Twitter accounts other than the ones maintained by members of this class: look for people, publications, institutions, and organizations related to your interests. Ask me if you’d like suggestions.
  • Be generous: respond to others, answer questions, share helpful links.
  • Use hashtags to get the most out of Twitter. Remember that that hashtag for this course is #cceng380.
  • Experiment, be creative, see what the possibilities of this relatively new medium are.
  • At the mid-point of the semester, you will be asked to analyze your use of Twitter by using Storify.

If you have any questions or comments, please share them below

[Adapted from “twitter assignment” on silver in sf, by David Silver & George Williams’s Twitter assignment in #wide18]