Tweet, Tweet, Tweet!!!

Our class has joined Twitter!!  To follow our class, find us at @mrsmcabeeatoes on twitter.com.  The kids are going to be allowed to tweet their wonders, tweet about what we are doing in class, and tweet about what they are learning.  I hope this will be a fun but educational experience for all of the students.  Be sure to ask your child about the tweets that we posted today as we learned how to use Twitter.  Let me know if you have questions!!


Below you will find some helpful information as we begin on this journey into twitter. (Thank you Mrs. Gault for this guide!!!!)

Terminology for Twitter:

Tweeter: Person that tweets

Tweeps: People that follow each other from one social network site to another

Tweets: Posts on Twitter

Tweeting: Act of posting a Tweet

Correct: Tweet me, twitter me

Incorrect: Twerp me, twet me, twittle me, t-bomb me

Some other lingo:

• @ signs are used to tag a user in a tweet. You can search for people by their  @username or their actual name, for example to search for my class you would type in @mrsmcabeeatoes
• # signs are called “hashtags”. They are used to put a word or phrase into a category. You can click or search hash tags to see who is talking about the same subject(s). Say you hash tag #epicfail, you can click on it and see everyone else that is tagging #epicfail at the same time. When our students“tweet” during the day we will use the #OESCHAT.
• Trending is what happens when a lot of people are talking about the same subject at the same time.
• Retweet (or RT) the two arrows going in a circle when you hover your curser over someone’s tweet. It will post the tweet into your thread so that your followers can see it.
• The “Favorite” star is used two different ways, depending on the user. First, and what it was designed for, it is used to bookmark a tweet so you can refer back to it later. Second, it’s used as a “Like” button is used on Facebook.