A guide to using Twitter for teachers
Twitter seems to be the underappreciated stepchild of the social-networking world. Why use a site that’s solely dedicated to the 140-character status update when you can get the same functionality out of Facebook, Myspace, blogger — and so much more? But its simplicity is exactly what makes Twitter a useful tool — especially for the classroom.
Twitterspeak: 66 Twitter Terms
Never read a twiller? Having twissues with your twerminology? Welcome, then, to the unforgivable abuse of the English language that some call Twitterspeak. The trick, in most instances, is to take the first two letters of microblogging service Twitter and meld them, often unwillingly, to the front of your chosen word. These ungainly neologisms are so numerous that they now require at least two sites to track them: Twictionary and Twittonary. The latter, Twittonary, forces you to click through every letter of the alphabet methodically, despite the fact that most letters lack a single entry.
25 Important Twitter Guides and Apps For Teachers
Diving into a rich and overwhelming social network like Twitter can be difficult. I know of many teachers and academic-minded people who are still unsure about the merits of the tool or are simply unsure where to start. The following 10 (+1 bonus!)
Has Inclusion Been Effective? How Can We Tell?
#Edchat We are very gareful to Christopher Rogers (@MrR0g3rs) for this week’s #Edchat summary. It wasn’t the easiest of topics as not everyone involved in the discussion had had personal experience of this type of teaching.
21 Great Twitter Analytics Tools
Twitter Analytics Tools are the one of the best way for measuring your online presence on twitter. Twitter Analytics Tools will help you to track and compare your own Tweets, as well as examine the growth of followers, status of your re-tweets and more. Today we want to present you some of the best 21 tools to analyze your twitter account. Most of these are completely free and we recommend you check these tools if you want to analyze and visualize your activity on Twitter. 1.
15 Fascinating Ways to Track Twitter Trends
One of the great things about TwitterTwitter reviews is that it is a great place to track emerging trends. When major events or big stories occur, people tweet about it and it inevitably ends up at the top of Twitter Search as a top trend. But this only scratches the surface of tracking Twitter trends. There are a wide variety of web applications, Twitter accounts, and even iPhone apps that can help people do everything from track popular hashtags to graph out recent Twitter trends. As Twitter grows, this information will only become more useful for understanding what is popular at any given moment, or even what was popular in the past.
Nine great reasons why teachers should use Twitter - Laura Doggett
What’s the point of Twitter? Why should educators get involved? What difference does using Twitter make?
5 Free Services for Pre-Scheduling Your Twitter Updates
Twitter's very real-time functionality is obviously the main attraction of the service. But it can also be a downside — if you want to send a tweet at a specific time, you usually have to be poised over a keyboard or phone. But there are some great solutions.
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Configure your IM client for Twitter You can chat with online friends (bidirectional follow relationship). You don’t post tweet, you directly send message to you friend without publishing it somewhere. Treegger does not store any data, credentials or messages, all contents just transit between you and our servers using secure connection (TLS). As twitter does not provide digest authentication feature, you should send your login/pass in plain text using SSL/TLS connection. Don’t worry we never store any password and nobody can access to them as the connection always remains secure.
How Twitter Use Has Changed, From 2009 to 2010
It's been a good year for Twitter, and not merely because the company announced yesterday it has secured another huge round of funding. The microblogging platform has grown by over 100 million users this year and expanded its staff from 130 to 350 people. And it's rolled out major redesigns and improvements to its site, mobile apps and APIs. People who created a Twitter profile before January 2009 now account for just 4.7% of the total Twitter population. That's one of the findings in a new study by the social media analytics and monitoring service Sysomos that examines over 1 billion tweets from 2010 and compares the data with Twitter usage in 2009. So how has the influx of new users changed the ways in which Twitter is used?
10 New Twitter Tools That Will Make Your Life Easier
Twitter continues to add a staggering amount of 460,000 users each day. In order to be fully equipped to stay on top of this popular web service, you can use Twitter tools to help. Here are 10 fresh, new Twitter tools that you can use to achieve greater productivity on Twitter-related tasks. 1. The Archivist
