September 2011. Twitter holds many opportunities for increasing student interaction and engagement. But many instructors don't realize until it's too late that Twitter doesn't automatically archive your students' tweets. That is, once your students get active and you're tracking their tweets with a hashtag in Twitter, those tweets will disappear shortly (note that I use the term "disappear" loosely -- digital footprints are permanent, live by that rule). That's because Twitter is intended to be a method for tracking the current pulse of the web's consciousness. And with millions of tweets flowing into this consciousness every minute, archiving the past isn't a priority. There are many methods, however, for archiving tweets, including applications that have been developed especially for that purpose (see this ReadWriteWeb post for many ideas). But I had an "ah ha" moment this morning while reading a new post over at ProfHacker.
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