What Are The Most Popular Education Topics On Twitter? [INFOGRAPHIC]
How To Turn Your Twitter Feed Into An Infographic. Your Twitter stream is an endless flow of information, insight, and ideas. But you’ve gotta sleep sometime. If only there was some way to quickly understand what your Twitter friends are talking about, what you’re missing, and what’s happening in the world. It’d be great if that was all displayed in a visual format that was easy to create and understand. The 3 little pigs and the big bad wolf story. 3 Cool Twitter Visualization Tools. The Twitter-verse is a complicated web of friends, followers, re-tweets and hashtags. It can be a headache to follow what’s really happening with your own tweets, let alone the whole Twitter eco-system. We took a look around the web for some interesting ways to visualize Twitter – in graphs, charts, or more abstract images.
Here are three of the coolest Twitter visualization tools to give you a break from all that 140-character-sized text. Visualization number one is called the Twitter Friends Network Browser. It is a simple app, but it’s interactivity makes it ultra-fun to play with. You start by typing in a username of someone on Twitter (I chose myself, but you could be less egotistical and try someone you follow or a public figure). The app then loads your Twitter profile pic and latest Tweet, and surrounds you with a wheel of your friends – with spokes denoting a connection. It’s fun to dig deeper into the connections, by clicking on one of the people you follow. Tweet Nest. Ever thought to yourself that you wish there was some way you could take a look back and see what you tweeted around this time last year? Or perhaps you remember that time you tweeted about that hilarious viral video, and now you can’t find it?
By installing Tweet Nest on your own web server, now you can! Features include: Archive Use Tweet Nest to easily store, browse and search amongst your tweets to find exactly what you're looking for, and let others do the same. New-style retweets, geographic places and links to original tweets included. Backup Additionally, Tweet Nest serves as a backup of your precious tweets on your own server. Media Tweet Nest offers an easier way of viewing your tweets at a glance, as they include thumbnails of media like photos hosted on common providers, such as TwitPic. Customize! Looking for a demo? Installation Tweet Nest is programmed in PHP and requires a MySQL database to work.
You can check out what versions you have by asking your web host. Great! That’s it! Find your Twitter Followers - Map My Followers. The Definitive List of Twitter Tools. Welcome to the Definitive List of Twitter Tools. I compiled this list while I wrote my Twitter Tools Book, and I continue to add to it as new tools are created. This is a living list, so if you are aware of any new Twitter Tools that are not yet on the list, or if you notice that some of the tools on this list are no longer live, leave a comment below and let me know! Enjoy the Twitter Tools! Twitter Tools Categories: Tools for Tweeting Longer than 140 Characters Twitter Advertising Backgrounds and Buttons Backup your Tweets Web Browser Plug-ins Twitter Business Tools Causes and Charity Celebrity Tweet Trackers Tweet Clouds Dating and Love Desktop & Web Clients for Twitter Dictionary Twitter Directories Drawing and Painting Email Tools for Twitter Favorites File Sharing Finance Follow and Unfollow #FollowFriday Food and Drink Fun Twitter Tools Games Gifts and Presents Groups Find Jobs on Twitter Maps and Location Mobile Multiple Account Management Music News Other Photos and Video Polls Popularity and Rank Print Retweet Spy.
Twitter Series-What I Wish I Knew Before I Started Twitter. This is the second in a series I am doing all about Twitter. You can read the first post here, where I discuss the need to change the way we teach about Twitter. Today, lets go back to the beginning and look at what we wish we had known... If you have read any of my leadership pieces before, you know I am big on reflection. As educators, looking back on our practice is one of the most important things we can do. I try to set aside time each day to just think about how I did a workshop or something I said or a resource I looked at. I think reflecting is pretty easy. So is the case with learning about something. Keeping that in mind, I sent out a tweet: Doing some writing for an upcoming piece. I also posted it on Google Plus and asked a few of my folks in my office the same question.
Before Twitter-"I wish I knew how to make it meaningful to me. " Before Twitter-"I wish I had known how to find people and build my PLN. " Before Twitter-"I wish I had known I could talk to people. " Twournal - Make a Book of your Tweets - Twitter Journal. Nwqobkp Shared by sonjalr. URL shortners. Tweetwally - Create a Tweetwall to Organize and Present Tweets. Currents of my river...