Archive of tweet mentions, questions, and replies

Social media mission statement

The MIT Libraries promote discovery and enable learning and advancement of knowledge at MIT. 

Content ideas

Twitter ~ once a day at http://twitter.com/mitlibraries.  Content ideas:

  • tweet a photo and ask people to "Name that library!"
  • tweet about or take a photo of cool collections people like (tweet a photo of yearbooks and send link to Barton record; tweet about travel collection)
  • tweet about MIT spotlights and lib resources for them
  • tweet about our good video tutorials
  • tweet about Ellen's podcast series
  • tweet about server downtime and other real time events
  • ask users questions or what they think?
  • tell people things they wouldn't have known otherwise
  • our recent survey showed that people don't know about XXX service, did you?
  • frame things in terms of user needs and how we can help them
  • twitter new LibGuides
  • twitter some cool photos that we have on Flickr
  • twitter about our staff and what they do (non-work)
  • Possibly twitter about other depts. at MIT and what they are doing

Things to try if we have the time:

Stats

Ways to track stats on followers & tweets: (from http://andyburkhardt.com/2009/09/28/how-to-track-your-librarys-social-media-stats/

Bit.ly - we use this actively to make shortcut links anyway.

  • stats by referrer (facebook, QR code, libraries.mit.edu, etc.)
  • country
  • # of clicks per day
  • # of links we created by day
  • # of FB shares, tweets, likes, comments

Doesn’t give time of day; doesn’t break it down easily by day of the week.

TweetStats  

You enter your username, it takes a little time, and then it gives you: http://tweetstats.com/graphs/mitlibraries#tstats:

  • Tweets per hour
  • Tweets per month
  • Tweets per day of the week
  • Tweet timeline
  • Reply statistics

Twitter Counter

Shows graph of # of followers and # of tweets each day, but the number of tweets is wrong for us anyway.  There are more things you can get if you pay, but it doesn’t sound worth it.

Backup

To backup tweets, try:

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