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Educational uses of
Jim Rible
[email protected]
ppt at http://hanlib.sou.edu/jim
• Twitter is a microblogging platform that allows
you to post 140-character snippets (via text
message, web or other media) and have them
read at the site, fed into your Facebook status
page, or delivered in a variety of other ways.
– http://library.duke.edu/blogs/libraryhacks/2008/06/10/academic-uses-fortwitter/comment-page-1/
Usage
• Web, web apps, but use from cell phone
probably most powerful mechanism.
– Text messaging charges
• Tweets can have links
– Pictures, blogs, web pages, Who needs 140
characters?
• Real time updates can be fascinating.
Sports Teams are an Obvious Use
Academic Events
I first saw the
academic use in
Time’s June 15,
2009 cover story.
http://www.time.com/time/
business/article/0,8599,19
02604,00.html
Twitter Basics
http://twitter.com
Conventions
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Following
Followers
@reply
@mention
Links made “tiny”
RT - retweet
# hashtags
– Like subject headings, #ashlandfire
– Selective Twitter Status #fb (Facebook App)
Setting up Twitter for your class
http://academhack.outsidethetext.com/home/2008/soyou-want-to-microblog-twitter-with-your-students/
Twitter for Academia
http://academhack.outsidethetext.com/home/2008/tw
itter-for-academia/