Category Archives: Twitter

How to make images accessible on Twitter and why its important

You can add a description, sometimes called alt-text, to your photos so they’re accessible to even more people, including people who are blind or have low vision. Good descriptions are concise, but present what’s in your photos accurately enough to … Continue reading

Posted in Communication tools, Tips, Twitter | Leave a comment

Twitter feed getting a little congested? Muting tweets may be the solution to resolve this!

There may be times when you see content coming up in your feed that you are just not interested in and given the choice you’d prefer not to see! It could be that your timeline is suddenly full of tweets … Continue reading

Posted in Communication tools, Twitter | Leave a comment

Happy 15th Birthday Twitter

On March 21 2006, Jack Dorsey published his first tweet. It was another three years and a month before I took the step to set up my own Twitter account and then tweet. This is my first tweet. How to … Continue reading

Posted in Twitter | Leave a comment

Celebrating a milestone: The 200th #LTHEchat

On the 17th March 2021 the weekly Learning and Teaching in Higher Education tweetchat reached a special milestone – the 200th #LTHEchat. For anyone who is not familiar with the chat, this is an hour long Q&A focussed on a … Continue reading

Posted in Twitter | Leave a comment

Things you may find useful when using Twitter that you might have slipped past you!

As the old saying goes “Every day’s a learning day’.  Social Media including Twitter seems to be always changing things. Whilst introducing new features in the main can be useful, they sometimes pass you by.  For me it was saving … Continue reading

Posted in Twitter | Tagged | 1 Comment

Different ways to engage in a Twitter conversation

From time to time it can be useful to keep an ongoing Twitter conversation together. This can be done by replying to a tweet.  Whilst you can also interact through a tweet by mentioning individuals or by adding a comment … Continue reading

Posted in Communication tools, Twitter | 3 Comments

Creating a set of threaded tweets

Sometimes one tweet is not enough to express the story you want to tell. You can create a connected collection of tweets known as a tweet thread. Now some of you might already be thinking if 280 characters is not … Continue reading

Posted in Twitter | Leave a comment

10 Ways to Use Twitter in Teaching

Resource building – tutors AND students can use a course hashtag to share links to relevant resources. These could include websites, news articles, videos, podcasts, images, SlideShare presentations as well as books and journal papers. Interactive lectures – ask students … Continue reading

Posted in Twitter | 4 Comments

How to save a hashtag search on Twitter

  Busy conversations If you are a user of Twitter you can’t have escaped noticing the use of hashtags. People use these keywords preceded by # to add emphasis to what they are saying, but also use them to filter … Continue reading

Posted in Communication tools, Twitter | Leave a comment

Digital Stories – Creating Moments on Twitter

Twitter Moments enable users to curate a succinct digital story. This can be done from the web or mobile devices. Bring together Tweets, photos and videos. You can also upload your own image as a cover for your story. Choose … Continue reading

Posted in Twitter | Tagged | Leave a comment