Twitter at the 2012 MIT Energy Conference (#mitenergyconf)
We will use Twitter in multiple ways to encourage interaction among speakers, attendees, and the public. Join the conversation!
What do you need to know?
First, if you don't already use Twitter, then you need to:
- Sign up for a free Twitter account.
- Learn the basics.
- Install a free Twitter app on your mobile device.
Second, there are three ways to use Twitter at the Conference:
- Share your thoughts, speaker quotes, and more by including the Summit's Official Twitter Hashtag, #mitenergyconf, in your tweets.
- Ask questions during panel session Q&A.
- Incorporate Twitter language basics
- @Reply: The @ symbol on Twitter is followed by a Twitter username (i.e. @mitenergyconf). Including a @Reply publicly tags that user and is meant to imply the message is directed to them or related to them.
- Retweet:
A retweet, or RT, is used when you wish to repost something
another person said on their Twitter feed. Retweeting sends their
message to your followers and notifies them that you are quoting
them.
- Hashtag: A hashtag is created when the pound (#) symbol comes before a word or phrase (i.e. #mitenergyconf). A hashtag is used in a message so other people can follow related sets of tweets.
Throughout
the 2012 Conference, we will pose questions to the audience to answer
via Twitter (i.e. "What has been your favorite panel so far?").
Attendees will be able to tweet their answers to these questions which
will then be moderated and displayed as part of the Twitter waterfall on Saturday.
We look forward to seeing you at the Conference! Please let us know if there are any questions in the meantime.
The Directors Team
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