Twitter Resources

Selected blog posts and articles (mainly from the Broadsides and Bulletins) containing useful ideas, discussions or reflections on historians' experience of using Twitter as a tool for research and/or teaching.

10 Commandments of Twitter for Academics – Do Your Job Better – The Chronicle of Higher Education

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@Raherrmann on Twitter
@Raherrmann: Good advice if I can follow it: "10 Commandments of Twitter for Academics" from @katrinagulliver http://t.co/ng4oz7yl
@sharon_howard on Twitter
@sharon_howard: My "Ten Commandments of Twitter for Academics" http://t.co/UGM5UTyK #twitterstorians
@jlpasley on Twitter
@jlpasley: Good advice if I can follow it: "10 Commandments of Twitter for Academics" from @katrinagulliver http://t.co/ng4oz7yl
@Airminded on Twitter
@Airminded: My "Ten Commandments of Twitter for Academics" http://t.co/UGM5UTyK #twitterstorians
@sirthopas on Twitter
@sirthopas: My "Ten Commandments of Twitter for Academics" http://t.co/UGM5UTyK #twitterstorians
@adevenney on Twitter
@adevenney: My "Ten Commandments of Twitter for Academics" http://t.co/UGM5UTyK #twitterstorians
@katrinagulliver on Twitter
@katrinagulliver: My "Ten Commandments of Twitter for Academics" http://t.co/UGM5UTyK #twitterstorians
@nickblackbourn on Twitter
@nickblackbourn: My "Ten Commandments of Twitter for Academics" http://t.co/UGM5UTyK #twitterstorians

broadsides 11 May 2012 Share: Delicious

AHA Today: History Hashtags

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@gorshell on Twitter
@gorshell: A roundup of history hashtags, and a question: what history hashtags do you use? http://t.co/aBpzFEPo #history #twitterstorians
@Jason_M_Kelly on Twitter
@Jason_M_Kelly: RT @nicklebygirl: Useful round up of #history hashtags on twitter from @halbion (AHA) http://t.co/NRkboRCl
@halbion on Twitter
@halbion: RT @nicklebygirl: Useful round up of #history hashtags on twitter from @halbion (AHA) http://t.co/AKBEPlOb #twitterstorians
@halbion on Twitter
@halbion: AHA: History Hashtags: It’s easy to get lost in the millions of messages users send through Twitter each day. Lu… http://t.co/AKBEPlOb
@RBTatAHA on Twitter
@RBTatAHA: Lis Grant reports on the results of my #historyhashtags query last week: http://t.co/v7x9bzUL . Thanks to all who participated!

broadsides 10 February 2012 Share: Delicious

AHA Today: Tweeting the 126th Annual Meeting

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@wragge on Twitter
@wragge: @dighist, @cliotropic, @myHNN, @archivesnext, @rgfeal, and many others featured in roundup of #AHA2012 Twitter coverage http://t.co/t4VfLvU3
@adevenney on Twitter
@adevenney: Highlights from the over 4,500 tweets about #AHA2012 http://t.co/t4VfLvU3
@AHAhistorians on Twitter
@AHAhistorians: @dighist, @cliotropic, @myHNN, @archivesnext, @rgfeal, and many others featured in roundup of #AHA2012 Twitter coverage http://t.co/t4VfLvU3
@JenHoward on Twitter
@JenHoward: RT @AHAhistorians: Highlights from the over 4,500 tweets about #AHA2012 http://t.co/iSnSYApc
@jmadelman on Twitter
@jmadelman: RT @AHAhistorians: Highlights from the over 4,500 tweets about #AHA2012 http://t.co/iSnSYApc
@AHAhistorians on Twitter
@AHAhistorians: Highlights from the over 4,500 tweets about #AHA2012 http://t.co/t4VfLvU3
@halbion on Twitter
@halbion: AHA: Tweeting the 126th Annual Meeting: Following the AHA’s 126th annual meeting this year on Twitter, through o… http://t.co/UOdMab7T
@dvhunter on Twitter
@dvhunter: You’re famous, @pbkotowski! RT @AHAhistorians: Highlights from the over 4,500 tweets about #AHA2012 http://t.co/o3mDCEHL
@miriamkp on Twitter
@miriamkp: RT @AHAhistorians: Highlights from the over 4,500 tweets about #AHA2012 http://t.co/Wgdexx2y

broadsides 13 January 2012 Share: Delicious

A Fistful of Twitterstorians – Notes from the Field

@Past_Lives – Martin Robb @sulinlewis @historyrepeatin – Ian Curry @Damienwarburton @benfrew @ProfSigler – Krista Sigler @tcstride @TonyHorwitz @outofmischief – Richard Hemming @markdegroh @canenvirorock – Lauren Wheeler @earlymodernpost – Lizzy Williamson @KlecticAcademiK – Theresa Runstedtler @ruth_mather @erfagen @tammyingram @hhtnsw – Historic Houses Trust of NSW A few more #twitterstorians have come to light, and welcome one and all! Add yourself in the comments if you would like to be inc…  »

twitterstorians 22 October 2011 Share: Delicious

Available now: a guide to using Twitter in university research, teaching, and impact activities | Impact of Social Sciences

blogs.lse.ac.uk - Blog Admin
Following on from the lists of academic tweeters published earlier this month, we have put together a short guide to using Twitter in university research, teaching, and impact activities, available to download as a PDF. How can Twitter, which limits users to 140 characters per tweet, have any relevance to universities and academia, where journal articles are 3,000 to 8,000 words long, and where books contain 80,000 words? Can anything of academic value ever be said in just 140 characters? We ha…  »

twitterstorians 14 October 2011 Share: Delicious

Happy Second Birthday #twitterstorians « Knitting Clio

Two years ago today, Katrina Gulliver began compiling a list of fellow historians on Twitter, and coined the term “twitterstorian” to describe this group.  She also instructed to use the #twitterstorian hashtag (which I don’t always remember to do!).   Although I was a relative newcomer to Twitter, she invited me to a Twitterstorians happy hour and dinner at this year’s AHA convention in Boston.  In honor of this anniversary Katrina has asked us to write about our experiences with Twitter, how …  »

broadsides 9 September 2011 Share: Delicious

Airminded · #twitterstorians and the Other

airminded.org - Brett Holman
[Cross-posted at Cliopatria.] I’ve been using the Internet for nearly two decades: in 1992 — after nervously checking with the physics computer lab manager first — I sent an email to my future Honours supervisor while she was visiting Toronto. I was quickly hooked by the promise of overcoming the tyranny of distance and transparently communicating with people all across the planet. Of course, it never worked quite like that. Of the many of the different forms of communication enabled by the I…  »

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With a Little Help | jliedl.ca

jliedl.ca - jliedl
The virtual commons has been my second home for quite some time now. As the lone Anglophone premodernist on my faculty, it’s great to be able to turn to the online world and get the feedback, advice and support I’ve missed since grad school. In the 90s, we did this on listservs and Usenet. In the last decade? The blogosphere’s been the place to be, but over the last few years, Twitter’s become the digital equivalent of the old water cooler. (We used to discuss “Murphy Brown” at mine. Oh, I know…  »
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@katrinagulliver on Twitter
@katrinagulliver: Happy Anniversary #twitterstorians – what this online community has meant to me at my blog: http://t.co/wJaGaND
@sharon_howard on Twitter
@sharon_howard: RT: @jliedl: Happy Anniversary #twitterstorians – what this online community has meant to me at my blog: http://t.co/mnxpKQG
@jondresner on Twitter
@jondresner: Happy Anniversary #twitterstorians – what this online community has meant to me at my blog: http://t.co/wJaGaND
@adevenney on Twitter
@adevenney: Happy Anniversary #twitterstorians – what this online community has meant to me at my blog: http://t.co/wJaGaND
@jliedl on Twitter
@jliedl: Happy Anniversary #twitterstorians – what this online community has meant to me at my blog: http://t.co/wJaGaND

broadsides 9 September 2011 Share: Delicious

The Twitterstorians at Two « The View East

thevieweast.wordpress.com - kellyhignett
  Today marks the second anniversary of the Twitterstorians – two years ago today Katrina Gulliver began compiling a list of historians on Twitter, using the #twitterstorian hashtag. Last year, to mark our first anniversary, I wrote a short blog post about the virtues of using Twitter for academic networking and praising its ability to allow me to connect with other historians which you can read HERE.   Everything I wrote a year ago remains true today. Social networking remains controversial in…  »
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@thevieweast on Twitter
@thevieweast: New Blog Post – ‘The Twitterstorians at Two’: http://t.co/GBOVu6D -featuring @siberianlight @JohnsonRussiaLi @ria_novosti
@thevieweast on Twitter
@thevieweast: New Blog Post – ‘The Twitterstorians at Two’: http://t.co/GBOVu6D -featuring @UCLSSEESLibrary @RussianSphinx @kremlinologist_ @AskSiberia
@grumpyhistorian on Twitter
@grumpyhistorian: RT @kellyhignett: New Blog Post – ‘The Twitterstorians at Two’: http://t.co/MYhPavl #twitterstorians
@adevenney on Twitter
@adevenney: New Blog Post – ‘The Twitterstorians at Two’: http://t.co/XauoJwJ #twitterstorians
@thevieweast on Twitter
@thevieweast: New Blog Post – ‘The Twitterstorians at Two’: http://t.co/GBOVu6D -featuring @Lemberik @horia_victor @polandww2 @globalvoices @brainpicker
@thevieweast on Twitter
@thevieweast: New Blog Post – ‘The Twitterstorians at Two’: http://t.co/GBOVu6D -featuring @MishaGlenny @MarkGaleotti @MattPotter @MDRBrown @andrewholt
@thevieweast on Twitter
@thevieweast: New Blog Post- ‘The Twitterstorians at Two’: http://t.co/GBOVu6D -featuring @BASEES @UCLSSEES @MoscowTimes @RT_com @Russianist @EdwardLucas
@thevieweast on Twitter
@thevieweast: New Blog Post- ‘The Twitterstorians at Two’: http://t.co/GBOVu6D -featuring @historycarnival @CWIHP @nickblackbourn @coldwarpenguin @RFERL

broadsides 9 September 2011 Share: Delicious

How Twitter helped me write exhibit labels « Public Historian

publichistorian.wordpress.com - Suzanne Fischer
This post is part of a blog celebration of two-year anniversary of the #twitterstorians community, organized by the indefatigable Katrina Gulliver. I’ve spent most of the past two years working on a very large automotive history exhibit. 80,000 sq ft, to be exact–bigger than most museums and probably the biggest exhibit I will ever have the opportunity to help develop. Besides vehicles, the exhibit includes 65 exhibit cases, which are thematic and put automotive history into a broader cultural …  »
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@adevenney on Twitter
@adevenney: My post for the #twitterstorians anniversary, on how twitter helped me write exhibit labels http://t.co/m4OVHQE
@jmadelman on Twitter
@jmadelman: MT @katrinagulliver MT @publichistorian: #twitterstorians anniversary post on how twitter helped me write exhibit labels http://t.co/wg8iCEw
@katrinagulliver on Twitter
@katrinagulliver: My post for the #twitterstorians anniversary, on how twitter helped me write exhibit labels http://t.co/m4OVHQE
@publichistorian on Twitter
@publichistorian: My post for the #twitterstorians anniversary, on how twitter helped me write exhibit labels http://t.co/m4OVHQE

broadsides 9 September 2011 Share: Delicious

Partystorians | Wilko von Hardenberg

wilkohardenberg.net - Wilko von Hardenberg
Even if I am an historian by trade, I’m pretty bad as a chronicler or even just as a diarist, and my memory is often even worse. You will thus excuse me if, when @katrinagulliver reminded me that the second #twitterstorians‘ anniversary was today, I had to recur to all the power of the internet to attempt to reconstruct how I got to know of this virtual society which over the last two years has become more essential to my life as an historian than most learned societies have ever been. But isn’t  »

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Early Modern Notes » On Twitterstorians Day

It’s two years since Katrina Gulliver posted the first #twitterstorians list. Doesn’t time fly when you’re having fun? That also means it’s about 1 year since I really started using Twitter seriously for the History Carnival and Carnivalesque. The experiment has done wonders for the Carnivals. Twitter is perfect for communicating with existing readers and [...]
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@historycarnival on Twitter
@historycarnival: How Twitter and the #twitterstorians saved the History Carnival: http://t.co/sz1W3mT Many, many thanks to everyone who follows and RTs here
@sallyosborn on Twitter
@sallyosborn: RT @sharon_howard: Here’s my post for the #twitterstorians birthday. It contains your birthday present too: http://t.co/HKjiVt3
@beckyfh on Twitter
@beckyfh: RT @sharon_howard: Here’s my post for the #twitterstorians birthday. It contains your birthday present too: http://t.co/HKjiVt3
@Airminded on Twitter
@Airminded: Here’s my post for the #twitterstorians birthday. It contains your birthday present too: http://t.co/Ag81305
@katrinagulliver on Twitter
@katrinagulliver: Here’s my post for the #twitterstorians birthday. It contains your birthday present too: http://t.co/Ag81305
@sharon_howard on Twitter
@sharon_howard: Here’s my post for the #twitterstorians birthday. It contains your birthday present too: http://t.co/Ag81305

broadsides 9 September 2011 Share: Delicious

Happy Birthday, Twitterstorians! | Doing History Digitally

kathryntomasek.wordpress.com - Kathryn Tomasek
When the question came across the tweetstream the other day, I was pleased to say I’d write a post to celebrate a this group’s birthday. Following folks on Twitter has been a part of my digital history practice for almost two years, ever since I chanced across the rich stream of tweets from MLA 2009. I was disappointed to find many fewer tweets from the AHA a week later, and I’ve tried to join in tweeting conferences since. That has included NITLE Summits as well as DH2010 and 2011, and I joined  »
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@jmadelman on Twitter
@jmadelman: RT @KathrynTomasek: Happy Birthday, Twitterstorians! http://t.co/4xdfeok
@katrinagulliver on Twitter
@katrinagulliver: Happy Birthday, Twitterstorians! http://t.co/Yy3f305
@KathrynTomasek on Twitter
@KathrynTomasek: Happy Birthday, Twitterstorians! http://t.co/Yy3f305

broadsides 9 September 2011 Share: Delicious

In Which the #Twitterstorians Have a Birthday

In Which the #Twitterstorians Have a Birthday This post is part of an interblog celebration for historians on Twitter, or #Twitterstorians, who turn two years old today. @Katrinagulliver is hosting…

twitterstorians 8 September 2011 Share: Delicious

The Value of Twitter for Historians « Jacksonian America: Society, Personality, and Politics

I’ll be the first to say that I didn’t get Twitter’s attraction to start with. TMI on Facebook was bad enough–why would I want to open up another technological avenue to read about people’s bowel m…

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Art History in the age of Twitter « Emanata (Dr Ben Harvey)

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Twitterstorian Anniversary – Frog in a Well Japan

froginawell.net - Jonathan Dresner
As an historian, I consider anniversaries irrelevant. However, as a social function, naturally, they matter a great deal, and the internet itself moves so quickly at times that it’s worth looking back regularly to maintain perspective. Twitter itself, for example, is less than five years old, and I’ve been using it for about two years. About a year ago, our erstwhile colleague Katrina Gulliver began cataloging historians on twitter under the title Twitterstorians, and now has a list of a few hu…  »

twitterstorians 7 September 2011 Share: Delicious

#twitterstorians | Developing an Empire

So, it’s the 2nd anniversary of the #twitterstorians, the hashtag created by Katrina Gulliver to collate historians who tweet. As a PhD student interested in digital humanities engagement (and having recently written a chapter for this book on teaching and writing history in the digital age)  I wanted to write something about how Twitter works for me as an early-career historian. Like Jonathan Dresner, I see Twitter as ‘semi-professional’ – a place for informal discussion on a variety of subjec…  »

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The Twitterstorians Turn Two!! – Notes from the Field

Once upon a time (well, two years ago), I asked on twitter "where are all the historians?". The answer became the Twitterstorians. The 7th September marks the second birthday of the #twitterstorians list. We had a small party last year, and since then the list has continued to grow! We’ve been mentioned on the American Historical Association blog, and it’s interesting to see how use of Twitter is spreading, particularly among more senior academics. If twitter had existed earlier in my academic …  »

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