Twitter Exercise:



1. Create a Twitter account.
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2. You can use Twitter to follow breaking news. Search for The Daily Evergreen and add them to your list. (You can always remove from the list you are following.)

3. Using search.twitter.com, look for a term related to your last story.
shantasticbus: is so happy that Ref 71 appears to have passed! Congrats to Washington on being more progressive than California. Who'd have thought

4. Create a list of five other students in this class. Label this ‘Class Tweets.

5. Post a tweet with a link to your class blog.

6. Retweet a post by hitting reply and adding your own message. Ask yourself: Why are retweets so powerful?

7. Block one of your classmates from following your Tweets.

8. You can use twicsy.com to search for Twitter pics. (Please don’t do this in class because some content is not appropriate for the classroom.)

9. Does libel law cover Twitter? Can you be sued for a posting on Twitter?

10. Go back to search.twitter.com. Underneath the search bar, click on ‘Advanced Search.’ Search for all posters within 50 miles of Pullman.

11. Search for #forthood. What’s the most recent post?

a. You’ll notice that Twitter immediately alerts you as new tweets arrive. How many Tweets arrived in the first minute after your search?

12. What happens to older tweets? What if we wanted to look at the real-time tweets as the shooting unfolded?

a. Limit the hashtag #forthood to tweets on Nov. 5. Retweet one of those posts.