Getting a handle on Twitter

• Craft your profile
• Find people to follow
• Start tweeting
• Engage with others

Twitter tools

• TweetDeck  – *Excellent tool for following large numbers of people and managing more than one Twitter account
• FollowerWonk –      useful for determining best times to tweet. Go to: Analyze followers tab and type in your twitter handle, then click on ‘analyze their followers’. The results are amazing!
• Buffer  – for scheduling tweets, and gives statistics
• Tweepi  – great for information and statistics on the followers of people
• Hashtagify me  – search hashtags, determine popularity etc.

* Thanks to Ashley Faulkes for the suggestions http://madlemmings.com/

Resources

• Twitter.edu – David Truss, has a great anatomy of a tweet
• Twitter for Beginners in Education – Becky Krill
• What fuels a Tweet’s engagement?
• Is a Picture Worth a Thousand Tweets?
• Is it tweet-worthy? – Kathleen Smeaton & Kate Davis, VALA presentation 2014
• What’s YOUR Twitter Formula?
• Be Better at Twitter: The Definitive, Data-Driven Guide