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Innovate My School - 13 ways Twitter improves education

Twitter can easily be dismissed as a waste of time in the secondary school classroom. Students will get distracted. http://www.innovatemyschool.com/industry-expert-articles/item/149-13-ways-twitter-improves-education.html

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The SSTA fears teachers can reveal too much personal information on sites like Twitter http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-16379494

BBC News - Teachers warned over Facebook and Twitter use

The Archivist is a service that uses the Twitter Search API to find and archive tweets.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/nov/20/free-internet-twitter-google-facebook

There are no free lunches on the internet | Technology | The Observer

Hot data: An IT technician checks the network servers at a data farm. Alamy Photograph: Juice Images/Alamy
It was once famed for its art scene and residents with daft haircuts. But the area around Old Street, on the fringes of the City of London, has emerged as a magnet for internet startups to rival those in the US, earning it the nickname Silicon Roundabout after its famously unlovely traffic system.

Twitter buys UK's TweetDeck for £25m | Business | The Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/may/27/twitter-buys-tweetdeck
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/pda/2011/jul/13/flickr-twitter-maps

Mapping the world Flickr and Twitter | Technology | guardian.co.uk

Self-described map geek Eric Fischer has released a fresh batch of data visualisations that merge Flickr and Twitter geographic data. Using the title See something or say something , he's produced images for London , below, as well as 34 more including New York , Barcelona , Baltimore , Tokyo , Singapore , Jakarta , Sao Paulo , Seoul , Los Angeles , Mexico City , Washington DC , San Francisco , Rotterdam ... and not Worthing. Photo by Eric Fischer on Flickr.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12976254 Should traders turn their screens to Twitter?

BBC News - Twitter predicts future of stocks

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/british-library-ponders-the-historical-value-of-twitter-2082711.html Dame Lynne Brindley, who was speaking about the future of libraries at The Independent Woodstock Literary Festival, said she has grappling with the question of whether the library should preserve Twitter, Facebook and blog entries in the same way it archives print.

British Library ponders the historical value of Twitter - News, Books - The Independent

The Jim Devine verdict was revealed first for many on Twitter That's because for seven days, I and a few other journalists, were allowed to tweet and text from the legal confines of Court 1 at Southwark Crown Court, on the south bank of the Thames. It's the first time a BBC Scotland reporter has been allowed to tweet an entire trial and follows the decision of the English courts to allow individual judges to decide which cases can be tweeted.

BBC News - Twitter trial first for BBC Scotland

5 Ways to Make Twitter Less Noisy

Surfin’ ain’t easy, and right now, you’re lost at sea. But don’t worry; simply pick an option from the list below, and you’ll be back out riding the waves of the Internet in no time.

BBC News - Twitter and e-mail use in Supreme Court allowed

Tweets will still be prohibited in some cases

BBC News - JFK Twitter account chronicles president's life

The Kennedy Twitter account also links to video and pictures of Kennedy from a digitised archive The John F Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston in the state of Massachusetts has begun chronicling the former US president's 1,000 days in office on the micro-blogging website Twitter.
Tweeting about 'suttin' - These New Yorkers could use different language online compared to others in different parts of the US But even though we are now supposedly part of one huge web community with a shared lexicon, we still maintain characteristics specific to our locality - even when we communicate in just 140 characters. He used geo-tagging to locate 9,500 users of Twitter across the US to see if, when comparing how we chat among our friends, people in the same places speak in similar ways.

BBC News - You have a regional dialect - even on Twitter