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Twitter 101

By Stephanie Hatch Leishman April 10, 2012

How to start a Twitter account for your department   You will need: An email account (your Twitter account will be tied to this) A username (search on Twitter to make sure the username you want is not taken). This should be as short as possible and should contain 'MIT' if possible. For example, the Department of...

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Use Your Own Logo

By Stephanie Hatch Leishman February 17, 2012

You represent the MIT brand when your department, lab, or center creates an account on a social media platform, so remember to use the MIT logo properly. Quoting from MIT's social media guidelines, "Use of the MIT logo is reserved for MIT's institutional pages, such as the MIT News Office" (this includes pages that...

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