Innovation in Body MRI - Saturday, 20 April, 08:30-17:15, Room 150AG

Single Subject Neuroimaging - Saturday, 20 April, 08:30-12:45, Room 151AG

Diffusion Goes Mad - Saturday, 20 April, 14:00-18:15, Room 151AG

Clinical Cancer MRI – CaseBased Teaching, Sunday, 21 April, 08:30-17:15, Room 150AG

Attendees of these courses will be informed of the appropriate "hashtag" to use during the course.

Twitter is designed to work on a mobile phone as well as on a computer. All Twitter messages are limited to 140 characters, so each message can be sent as a single SMS alert. 

Twitter is useful for groups. If you are following the ISMRM twitter feed (@ismrm), we will be able to quickly communicate group-related items, such as "The Speaker Ready Room has changed to Hall 3."

Your Twitter account can be public or private. If your account is private, only those you've authorized can see your messages. If your account is public, anyone who knows your Twitter Username can read and subscribe to them.

How to get started
Go to Twitter.com and sign up. Twitter will walk you through the basics when you sign up, like adding followers and importing contacts from your email (if available), uploading an image and adding short bio for your profile. If you would like to make your account private, you will have to go to the options menu and check the box marked "Tweet Privacy: Protect my Tweets"

For best results, use your real name when signing up; otherwise your friends won't be able to find you easily. It's also helpful to upload a picture.

Now that you have a Twitter account, tell your friends your username or send them the link to your Twitter profile page. Each users has his own page, in the form twitter.com/username.

Twitter Lingo

To use Twitter effectively, you have to know the lingo. There are terms that are most important for you to understand:

@ Reply: If you see an @ (that isn’t part of an email address) on Twitter, it is typically followed by someone’s screen name. It’s a way to hold a public conversation with that person. (@ Replies are visible on your main Twitter feed but are not sent to your followers feeds, unless your followers also follow the user you are @ replying with.) (If you select a tweet on your feed, a menu will appear below it with options to reply, retweet or favorite that tweet)

DM: DM stands for direct message. It’s a way to hold a private conversation with another Twitter user. You can only DM people who are already following you. (To send a direct message, you will need to go to your profile page: twitter.com/username and select the envelope icon.)

RT: RT stands for retweet. If you like what someone says on twitter, You can retweet it to spread the message to your followers as well. (If you select a tweet on your feed, a menu will appear below it with options to reply, retweet or favorite that tweet)

Hashtag (#): If you see the pound symbol (#) before a word or phrase, it is essentially a keyword tag for the tweet so that others can find it more easily. On Twitter, this is called a hashtag, to help people search for your tweet (like #ismrm13). Basically, it’s a way to follow the stream of everyone talking about a specific subject. If you are interested in following a hashtag or keyword, you can use Twitter's search function to pull all public tweets that share the same hashtag.

Favorite: If you want to bookmark a Tweet, you can favorite it. (If you select a tweet on your feed, a menu will appear below it with options to reply, retweet or favorite that tweet)

Where to Use Twitter
When you sign up to use Twitter, you do so on Twitter’s website, but you aren’t limited to using this website to log into your account and read/post updates. Many people use the Twitter app to tweet from their smartphones and tablets.

Some Etiquette for Twitter Users
When retweeting, if you add your own comments to the message, add them before the RT’ed message so it is apparent what you are saying versus what the other person has said.

Please be aware that Twitter is a public forum! Take a moment to consider what you are tweeting before you post.