Twitter is a powerful reporting app to drive traffic to your blog and to establish a following. As such, each of you will be required to maintain a professional presence on your Twitter feed for the next 10 days. The assignment will begin on tomorrow.
Assignment Overview: You must maintain a professional presence on Twitter for 10 days between September 24th – October 4th. The tweets relating to your beat must be professional; any personal tweets do not need to be professional. You should promote your website in your tweets.
Specific Details on Your 10 Day Presence:
- For 10 days as noted above, you must maintain a “professional” presence on Twitter as it relates to your beat.
- You must tweet at least twice a day, and a minimum of 8 hours must elapse after every TWO tweets. Retweets DO NOT count as a tweet.
- You must use the hashtag #dccs225 for all your tweets.
- You must follow me (first) so I may follow you in return.
- Need minimum of 20 tweets in 10 day period.
- You will be judged on your content and professionalism.
Criteria for which you will be graded:
- Did you tweet at least once a day for 10 days?
- Did you space your tweets?
- Were your tweets the right length (did you leave room for retweets?)
- Were your tweets professional (capitalization, punctuation, spelling, no typos)?
- Were your tweets interesting?
- Were your tweets creative?
- Did you vary your tweets (share material, retweets, original content, photos, etc.)
- Did you use link shorteners?
- Did you use appropriate hashtags?