TWITTER

'PHOTO SHARING' 

What is photo sharing?

• It is a way to share your photos or videos to the world using 'Twitpic' or 'yfrog' or using from another social network, such as instagram,path,pinterest and many more
• Everyone loves photos. Just like tweets, photos that you share on Twitter should also be interesting and funny.Twitter accepts photos that are 3MB and below,but if you want it post your photo faster, you crop it or make the size even smaller.
•  Twitter not only support ".jpeg" , It also support ".png" , and ".gif "
• Now Twitter allows users to add images to their tweets. Users will now find a camera icon on the bottom of the “What’s Happening?” box on Twitter.com. Clicking it will let users select a picture to upload.

'RESEARCH' 

How to use research on twitter?

• Twitter is about following people and topics you are interested in. That said, Twitter can also be used as a research tool.
  

_{These are simple ways I have used Twitter for research:}

• Hashtags: Pick the ‘hashtags’ (keywords) related to the focus of your study. In this case, I searched for the topic #Brunei. Once I searched the hashtag #Brunei, it shows other twitter that are tweeting using the #Brunei hashtag in their tweets and that provided information linked to my project
  
• Also from, 'Trending Topics' i get a lot of information about other countries. For example ; On August, Philippines hit by a flood, many of the twitter user tweet "#prayforthephilippines" until it reaches Trending Topic : Worldwide, if they didnt they tweeted that i would not have known that Philippines has been hit by a flood

_{Tools/Twitter apps that i have used for research:}

• TweetDeck: This is the most popular software to manage and organize your information on Twitter. It allows you to have columns by hashtag. This makes tracking a hashtag easier. You download this free software to your PC, Mac or smartphone and connect it to your Twitter account.

• Trendsmap: This is an online tool that allows you to visualize in a map the most tweeted words and hashtags use by geography.