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Follow ICHEP updates on Twitter

CMS Twitter stream
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This year, there will be live text streams from ICHEP on Twitter[1] to provide key quotes, highlights and summaries from the sessions. CMS, CERN, and others will be "tweeting" from the sessions, and you can follow these tweets without requiring an account. You can do so by opening the following links in a web browser:

Each "track" at ICHEP will also have its dedicated hashtag used in conjunction with #ICHEP2012. Click on the links below to follow updates from the individual streams:

  • The Standard Model and EW Symmetry Breaking – Higgs Searches: #HIG
  • Beyond the Standard Model – SUSY: #SUSY
  • BSM – non-SUSY, Exotics: #EXO
  • Top Quark Physics: #TOP
  • B Physics: #BPHYS
  • QCD, Jets, Parton Distributions: #QCD
  • CP Violation, CKM, Rare Decays, Meson Spectroscopy: #CPV
  • Neutrinos: #Nu
  • Heavy-Ion Collisions: #HION
  • Lattice QCD: #LQCD
  • Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology: #ASTRO
  • Formal Theory Developments: #THEORY
  • Detectors and Computing for HEP: #DCHEP
  • Future Accelerators: #FutAcc
  • Education and Outreach: #EDU

How you can contribute to the conversation — tweeting from ICHEP

If you are at ICHEP, we encourage you to tweet from all of the sessions you attend. You can use the web-based Twitter page to tweet, or use an application like TweetDeck or HootSuite. | "I want to tweet, but don’t how! Help!"

A few pointers:

  • Be sure to always use the #ICHEP2012 hashtag.
  • During the parallel sessions, always use both the #ICHEP2012 tag and the track-specific one (see above).
  • Provide your own insight regarding the talk.
  • Quote speakers by including quotation marks. Be sure not to misquote the speakers!
  • Include summaries from the sessions.
  • If you are talking about CERN, CMS, ATLAS or one of the other experiments, be sure to mention their Twitter accounts (more below, under "Mention"). e.g. @CMSexperiment, @ATLASexperiment, @LHCbexperiment, @ALICEexperiment, @CERN, @CERN_FR etc.
  • If you must split your message into multiple tweets, be sure to add "(contd.)" to all but the penultimate tweet, and tag each one with #ICHEP2012.
  • Twitter usually auto-shortens all links, especially long ones. However, you may use a third-party shortener if you wish to track the links: bit.ly or cern.ch/go.

CMS presence on other sites

In addition to Twitter, CMS has an active presence on the three platforms below, and they are used to provide our followers regular news and information relating to CMS and the LHC.

Google+: gplus.to/CMSexperiment | Over 7,500 followers
Facebook: fb.com/CMSexperiment or facebook.com/CMSexperiment | Over 4,500 followers
YouTube: youtube.com/CMSexperimentTV

HOW can you follow CMS?

You do not need an account on any of the above platforms in order to see the content posted to them — you can just visit the pages linked above. However, in order to receive the updates and be notified of new posts as well as to comment on and reshare CMS posts on these platforms, you will need the relevant accounts.

I have an account!
Sign in to them, visit the CMS pages on the above platforms, and:

  • Twitter: Click the "Follow" button on the top right-hand corner
  • Google+: Hover over the red "Follow" button to the left of the CMS logo, and add the CMS page to one of your Circles
  • Facebook: Click the "Like" button on the top right-hand corner

You will now see updates from CMS whenever you are signed in to these platforms.

I don’t have an account!
Go to the following links to create them:

Twitter glossary

Tweet: A status update of 140 character or less. A form of micro-blogging, but in the Twitter world its called a tweet.

Mention: A Twitter username is known as a "handle". You can mention another Twitter user by tagging them using the "@" symbol. Read more.

RT or ReTweet: When someone re-posts your tweet. This could be because they really like it and want to share it with their own tweeps. Generally, getting ReTweeted is a very good thing, especially when that tweet has a link you want people to see in it.

Hashtag: A hashtag is a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets. You add them in-line to your Twitter posts by prefixing a word with a hash symbol (or # sign). Just affix the # symbol to the beginning of a word, tweet it — and you’ve got your #hashtag! A hashtag can be included anywhere in your tweet — in the beginning, middle or at the end (though generally the latter). It doesn’t matter if the hashtag is uppercase or lowercase. Read more.

How do I tweet?

A step-by-step guide:

  1. Create an account at https://twitter.com/signup. Pick a memorable but short username.
  2. Fill in your profile details, and upload a good profile picture at https://twitter.com/settings/profile
  3. Go ahead and compose your first tweet! Go to https://twitter.com/ and either enter your tweet inside the textbox below your profile details on the left sidebar, or click on the BLUE button on the top right-hand corner.
  4. Follow some people/organisations! Go to their profile and click the blue "FOLLOW" button on the top right. For example: @CMSexperiment or @CERN.
  5. Mention someone! Use the “@” symbol before the username of the person/organisation you want to mention. For example: “I am looking forward to @CERN’s seminar next week.”
  6. Use a #hashtag! Add your voice to a conversation by using a hashtag. For example: “I am excited about the results being presented at #ICHEP2012.” Remember to use tags in-line. So, do not say, “I am excited about the results being presented at ICHEP. #ICHEP2012.” The fewer characters you use, the better.
  7. You are set! Go back to Twitter suggestions for ICHEP.