Why use Twitter?

Twitter has grow to be more and more well-liked with teachers in addition to college students, policymakers, politicians and most people. Many customers struggled to know what Twitter is and the way they might use it, nevertheless it has now grow to be the social media platform of alternative for a lot of.

The snappy nature of tweets signifies that Twitter is extensively utilized by smartphone customers who don’t wish to learn lengthy content material gadgets on-screen.

Twitter permits you to:

  • simply promote your analysis, for instance by offering hyperlinks to your weblog tales, journal articles and information gadgets
  • attain numerous folks rapidly by means of tweets and retweets
  • comply with the work of different specialists in your subject
  • construct relationships with specialists and different followers
  • maintain up-to-date with the newest information and developments, and share it with others immediately
  • attain new audiences
  • search suggestions about your work and provides suggestions to others
  • comply with and contribute to discussions on occasions, for instance conferences that you may't attend in individual
  • specific who you're as an individual.

What must you tweet about?


The kind of data you tweet can rely upon whether or not you're tweeting as a person or as an organisation, undertaking or group.

When you've got a private Twitter account you could wish to combine tweets about your analysis with tweets about different issues which might be of curiosity to you, for instance hobbies, information tales and normal observations. Insights into non-academic elements of your life might help make you an fascinating individual to comply with

In case you are tweeting on behalf of an organisation, undertaking or group then you could select to solely ship research-related tweets. Twitter is a comparatively casual communications software so do not be afraid to embrace a private, pleasant and humorous method to tweeting. 

Examples of issues you may tweet

  • Particulars of recent publications or assets you've got produced
  • Information gadgets that function your analysis
  • Hyperlinks to any weblog posts you've got written
  • Ideas on conferences you attend
  • Questions to ask suggestions
  • Attention-grabbing information gadgets you’ve discovered
  • Attention-grabbing pictures 
  • Replies to different folks's tweets
  • Retweets of different folks's tweets