{"id":1435,"date":"2015-05-05T09:55:06","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T09:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/?p=1435"},"modified":"2020-09-22T01:58:13","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T01:58:13","slug":"how-can-academics-use-twitter-effectively","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/how-can-academics-use-twitter-effectively\/","title":{"rendered":"How can academics use Twitter effectively?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"twitter-245460_640\"<\/a>I have been using Twitter<\/a> for a few years now, but it has been a while since I blogged on this topic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When I started tweeting I know that I would not be able to tweet every day, and weeks (or even months) could go by without me tweeting, and, to me, that would not give a very good impression.<\/p>\n

Before I signed up I looked at how I could tweet automatically. You quickly come across services such a Hootsuite<\/a>, which enable you to schedule tweets. This is a very nice service but you still have to do something on a regular basis. Like before, it is easy to forget, not have time etc. and you suddenly find yourself tweetless<\/em> for weeks (or months).<\/p>\n

That was the main reason I developed my own Twitter application. This enables me to do one tweet a day. This means that I am tweeting regularly and I hope that it is supplemented by a liberal smattering of ‘live’ tweets, as well as retweets.<\/p>\n

I have automated two types of tweets.<\/p>\n

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  1. I have a list of my publications, held as bibtex, and I tweet those.<\/li>\n
  2. I have another database, which holds (I hope) items of interest – let’s call them News.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Each day (it could be set up to do more), I choose (randomly) whether to tweet a News item, or a paper. Once that decision has been made, I just choose randomly from the relevant database\/bibtex file.<\/p>\n

    But, this set me thinking. What would academics actually want from a Twitter service? I am specifically thinking about sending tweets, but I would also be happy to hear about reading them.\"twitter-292994_640\"<\/a><\/p>\n

    If you have any views, I would be really interested to know (as I might do it!).<\/p>\n

    Please just add a comment which specifies your ‘Tweeting wish list’, from your academic perspective.<\/p>\n

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