Michelle Blanchard, Senior Research Officer, Inspire Foundation and
PhD Candidate, Orygen Youth Health Research Centre, Centre for
Youth Mental Health, University of Melbourne
Last month, I shared with you some of my favourite individuals and
organisations to follow on Twitter (www.twitter.com) is a popular
social networking site used by individuals and organisations to
post updates in the form of a 140 character message.
Now that you're following some interesting people, I bet you're
wondering how you can interact with them in a more meaningful way.
Twitter have published a great guide to using their site
which you can access here:
http://support.twitter.com/groups/31-twitter-basics. A
few of the key terms are summarised below.
You can reply to a tweet by another person by simply tweeting a
response beginning with their @username. For example to reply
to a tweet by ReachOut.com you'd type "@ReachOut_AUS great idea
team"
You can mention another twitter user by including their @username
in your tweet. For example to mention the ReachOut.com site
you'd type "I came across @ReachOut_AUS which is a great resource
for young people"
To forward another twitter users update to your followers (eg if
you think they've posted a useful resource or comment) you can do
so by clicking the 'retweet' button to the right of their
tweet.
Direct Messages (or DMs) are a way to send a direct message to
someone on twitter. You do this by placing a 'D' before the
message. This message can only be viewed by you and the
person you are contacting. Eg to send a direct message to the
crew at ReachOut.com you'd type "D @ReachOut_AUS Love the site
guys. What a great resource for young people. "
The # symbol (otherwise known as a hashtag) is used to mark
keywords or topics in a Tweet. Often if you attend a
conference or major event there will be a hashtag that people are
encouraged to use if they are tweeting about the event, so that
others can 'listen' to the conversations occurring. Some
hashtags related to young people, technology and wellbeing that you
might like to follow are:
#mhsm - mental health and social media chat. This online
discussion happens weekly on Twitter on Tuesday evenings (US) at
9pm CST/10pm EST.
#hcsm - health care and social media chat. This is a weekly
chat (Sun @ 8pm CT) on Twitter focusing on healthcare
communications & social media
Got any twitter tips to share?
Michelle Blanchard, Senior Research Officer, Inspire
Foundation and PhD Candidate, Orygen Youth Health Research Centre,
Centre for Youth Mental Health, University of Melbourne
Last month, I shared with you some of my favourite individuals
and organisations to follow on Twitter (www.twitter.com) is a
popular social networking site used by individuals and
organisations to post updates in the form of a 140 character
message.
Now that you're following some interesting people, I bet you're
wondering how you can interact with them in a more meaningful way.
Twitter have published a great guide to using their site
which you can access here:
http://support.twitter.com/groups/31-twitter-basics. A
few of the key terms are summarised below.
You can reply to a tweet by another person by simply tweeting a
response beginning with their @username. For example to reply
to a tweet by ReachOut.com you'd type "@ReachOut_AUS great idea
team"
You can mention another twitter user by including their
@username in your tweet. For example to mention the
ReachOut.com site you'd type "I came across @ReachOut_AUS which is
a great resource for young people"
To forward another twitter users update to your followers (eg if
you think they've posted a useful resource or comment) you can do
so by clicking the 'retweet' button to the right of their
tweet.
Direct Messages (or DMs) are a way to send a direct message to
someone on twitter. You do this by placing a 'D' before the
message. This message can only be viewed by you and the
person you are contacting. Eg to send a direct message to the
crew at ReachOut.com you'd type "D @ReachOut_AUS Love the site
guys. What a great resource for young people. "
The # symbol (otherwise known as a hashtag) is used to mark
keywords or topics in a Tweet. Often if you attend a
conference or major event there will be a hashtag that people are
encouraged to use if they are tweeting about the event, so that
others can 'listen' to the conversations occurring. Some
hashtags related to young people, technology and wellbeing that you
might like to follow are:
#mhsm - mental health and social media chat. This online
discussion happens weekly on Twitter on Tuesday evenings (US) at
9pm CST/10pm EST.
#hcsm - health care and social media chat. This is a
weekly chat (Sun @ 8pm CT) on Twitter focusing on healthcare
communications & social media
Got any twitter tips to share?