Twitter Assignment

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:

  1. For 10 days as noted above, you must maintain a “professional” presence on Twitter as it relates to your beat.
  2. 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.
  3. You must use the hashtag #dccs225 for all your tweets.
  4. You must follow me (first) so I may follow you in return.
  5. Need minimum of 20 tweets in 10 day period.
  6. 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?