Twitter

TAG/Twitter

Our wiki provides for interconnecting material on the wiki either by directly linking to other pages on the wiki or by using secondary wiki links that we refer to as TAGS. The purpose of the tags is to allow pages to reference the source page as a secondary reference. For example, if a page has a link to its Twitter page, then we provide a primary link to this Twitter page. If the page has information about Twitter or the subject of the page consults on or teaches about Twitter, then we use the TAG/Twitter reference which will place that page on a list distinct from the primary reference pages.

About Twitter

Twitter is a major social media site that allows people, organizations, companies, etc to create an account with a Twitter Name, a profile containing a photo, website address, location, and a brief "Bio".

Twitter users may send "tweets" of up to 140 characters in length to the Twitter-connected world. That means anyone with internet access who goes to the Twitter website or a large variety of sites that process, categorize, and display these tweets.

Twitter also has Direct Message facilities where users may also communicate directly with each other via the Tweets.

Twitter users may be addressed/referenced specifically in tweets by appending their username with the @ symbol.

Twitter users also use "Hashtags". wihich are simply a tag word prefixed with the # symbol, such as #FredWiki

There are a variety of services that allow users to reference websites via condensed versions of long URLs (that 140 character limit) and Twitter automatically shortens long URL's itself (but not to help you get under 140).

Usage in FredWiki

WikiFred

Our demonstration editor (and good friend) Wiki Fred is on Twitter as, of all things, WikiFred. He hopes to be a good channel to watch for our status and interesting things, so Follow him if you like.

You can also search for hashtag #FredWiki

Editor Selected Tweeters

Fredericksburg Related Twitter Users You might like read or "Follow" ¹

• WikiFred - see above
• Please Add
• Please Add

Standardized Header Table References

Work-In-Progress Page. Please withhold edits.Share issues via Work-In-Progress Talk Page. THANKS !!!

We use standard references to Twitter in our page table headers

||||<bgcolor='#E0E0FF'>'''On the Web'''||

||<bgcolor='#E0E0FF' )>'''["Twitter"]''':||[http://twitter.com/USERNAME USERNAME]||

Twitter Info and Resources

• Wikipedia Article - extended article with history, timeline of events
• Twitter Advanced Search

• Twitter in Plain English from CommonCraft.com, video presentation

  also on YouTube

• NY Times Business Online Twitter articles
• Social media impacts client relationships August 28, 2009, 3:08 pm - an interesting take by Matt Hames of Eric Mower & Associates on using Twitter and other social media with business contacts.

Discussion

See our Talk Page for discussions about the content and organization of material on this page.

Footnotes

1. bolded entries are followed by WikiFred