Chrissy-+Twitter

=Twitter Scavenger Hunt=

Name:

Twitter name or URL: http://twitter.com/Starbucks Mr. Rosen: I used this example in class.
 * 1) Find an example of a "logo" account on Twitter**

Twitter name or URL: http://twitter.com/Kara_atDELL
 * 2) Find an example of a UserAtCompany account on Twitter**

Twitter name or URL: http://twitter.com/GoToTennis Mr. Rosen: How do you know this is a bot?
 * 3) Find an example of a Twitter bot**

Topic: Jon Gosselin
 * 4) Name one topic that is currently on the list of trending topics**

Twitter name of friend or URL: http://twitter.com/lnkraus8
 * 5) Find a friend on Twitter that is not currently in this class and follow them**

Explanation: The 140 character limit on a tweet started because when you send a text using SMS messaging you can only use 140 characters, so it was created for people sending tweets from their phones. Mr. Rosen: Text messages are 160 characters, leaving 20 characters for the username.
 * 6) Tweets are limited to 140 characters or less. Where did the number come from?**

Cut and paste it here: playing scrabble on my phone and apparently "poo" is not in the dictionary.......
 * 7) Find a funny tweet.**

Hashtag: #sundayriver
 * 8) Find an interesting hash tag.**