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How to archive your tweets. Twitter may be a great way to keep up with what’s happening, but it’s not so good at keeping track of what's happened. That’s because Twitter itself offers no way to keep an archive of your tweets. It’s true that you can search your own postings (from your Twitter page). But those searches are limited to the last 3,200 tweets you have made. Backchannel Tools. FrontPage. Top Ten Twitter Hashtags for Educators. Djainslietech - PLN Development. Crowd Sourced Twitter Guide For Teachers. This guide is specifically for teachers who are interested in finding out more about Twitter and even jumping in to the Twittersphere themselves.

Crowd Sourced Twitter Guide For Teachers

It is made up of a series of videos from teachers who use Twitter all the time, so it was 'crowd sourced.' Meaning people in the crowd each added a little until there was a whole. Pretty cool stuff really. You can hit the About page to find out who is responsible for all of this... :-) Anyway, on with it... Educators on Twitter. Why Educators should be using Twitter - Justin Tarte. The Burkie Blog. Tweeting about Twitter – #edutweet. Monitter : real time, live twitter search and monitoring. Ssajabiru. Hashtags on Twitter: How do you follow them?  Twitter Hashtag Tracking and Analytics. HOW TO: Get the Most Out of Twitter #Hashtags. One of the most complex features of Twitter for new users to understand is the hashtag, a topic with a hash symbol ("#") at the start to identify it.

HOW TO: Get the Most Out of Twitter #Hashtags

Twitter hashtags like #followfriday help spread information on Twitter while also helping to organize it. The hashtag is a favorite tool of conferences and event organizers, but it's also a way for Twitter users to organize themselves: if everyone agrees to append a certain hashtag to tweets about a topic, it becomes easier to find that topic in search, and more likely the topic will appear in Twitter's Trending Topics. So how do you disseminate and make sense of all this hashtag madness? By going through the art of the hashtag step-by-step, of course.