If you are organizing a Group Twitter reporting event outside the reporTwitters website, these are the technical requirements. It is not a possibility to have multiple people texting or sending tweets to one account, but you can get around this problem. Just create a follower-enabled Twitter and make sure the follower updates are published. This is how you do it.
- Create a communal Twitter address like reporTwitter www.twitter.com/newsroom.
- Get all the reporters to sign up as Followers.
- Enable ‘auto friending’. That means that anyone adding you as a friend will be automatically added as a friend of the event.
- Send out the Password of the Newsroom (in our case: n o v a t w i t t e r).
- Instruct everybody to look at the Newsroom profile in the ‘With Friends’ mode.
- Tell everybody to go to Hashtags.com and set up a Hashtag for the feed; this automatically updates everybody on their personal tweets too.
- Also use the FOLLOW + UserName command. (i.e.: follow Newsroom. Everybody doing this will get the Newsroom tweet and, more importantly, their replies will be published in the Newsroom with Friends timeline.
- Set up a Facebook group or better still; publicise your event on the reporTwitters Facebook group (for instance by importing a blog post about it).
-All the users can find out other people’s user names by clicking on the ’send message’ link which mostly is listed at the bottom of the right side bar. Clicking on the send message will open the usual 140 character box at the top of the page and if you click on the drop down menu, you will be able to see all the Twitter addresses of the people that are in the group.
- Additionally, Followers can start following each other (by typing in Follow Username) and start getting each others’ tweets too.
- Add the Twitter badge to related websites by copying the code. Make sure you are inserting the “with friends” badge!!
- Sign your group Tweet up on the ReporTwitter.com website. It gets you good exposure.
- Send out email press releases to relevant newspapers and other media before (announcing) and after (evaluating your achievements) the event.
- Send us a note; we’ll run an article about your event on this blog.
- Send an email to support@twitter.com about the event; perhaps they publish it in their blog.
- Publicise your event on the Twitter Fan Wiki: it gets you some good exposure.