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Why I Love Twitter by problogger -- Revver Online Video Sharing Network
345 views since 2008-04-16 This morning I asked my Twitter Followers what they loved about Twitter. This video compiles the answers that they replied with over the next two hours.
Last May on MediaShift, we wrote a series of articles about a new microblogging tool called Twitter , which was just beginning to gain visibility among the digerati. At that time, many bloggers were still on the fence as to how useful the service really was. Many thought it was a waste of time . Others just didn't understand if it really had any practical uses in daily life. In my post , I wrote about the potential uses for Twitter in the future, such as helping out in emergency situations or facilitating co-working for remote teams. One year later, I've found that Twitter has gone above and beyond my original expectations in terms of usefulness, allowing me to obtain and share information efficiently.
Twitter Helps with Reporting, Filtering the News
Twitter is one of the world's most radical management innovators. It's revolutionary because it brings 21st Century DNA roaring raucously to life: it is a living expression of the new principles of organization and management we've been discussing . Here are Twitter's ten rules for radical innovators (which have, just maybe, had a bit of influence when it comes to Twitter). 1. Ideals beat strategies. What infuriates people most about Twitter is that it seems to have no plan, scheme, or angle.
Twitter's Ten Rules For Radical Innovators - Umair Haque - HarvardBusiness.org
YOU, TOO CAN BE THE TYPE OTHERS WANT TO FOLLOW Say what you mean: "Often Twitterers tend to think other people can read minds. I'm all for being funny, cute, perky and zany, but you gotta get your point across." Give them a hook -- a tip, a laugh, a link: "On Cinco de Mayo, Sprinkles Cupcakes put out a tweet that said the first person (in the stores) to say hola! instead of hi would get a free chocolate cupcake.
There's an art to writing on Facebook or Twitter -- really - USATODAY.com
Australian Twitter use hits all-time high: News - Communications - ZDNet Australia
Australian use of the Twitter micro-blogging service hit an all-time high for the week ending 10 January 2009, as a number of factors contributed to its growth. "Visits to Twitter had a short-term dip between September 2008 and November 2008, but have steadily climbed again to January 2009, and were at an all-time high for the week ending 10 January 2009," Hitwise senior analyst Sandra Hanchard wrote on her blog today . (Credit: Hitwise)
By Elizabeth J. Aspden and Louise P. Thorpe Emerging technologies and applications can extend traditional approaches to data generation and can be used effectively in institutional planning. Having participants provide real-time information offers valuable behavioral insights in context, rather than relying on information recall.
“Where Do You Learn?”: Tweeting to Inform Learning Space Development (EDUCAUSE Quarterly) | EDUCAUSE
TweetDeck has become my primary Desktop Twitter client over the last 6 months of the year and has quite literally changed the way that I Tweet on a number of levels. One of the biggest impacts that it has had is in the way that it builds ‘groups’ into my twitter workflow. This has helped me immensely to manage the noise that is associated with following and being followed by thousands of people.