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What is Microblogging? (And Where Do I Get Started?)

Microblogging refers to the posting of very short updates about oneself. It is in contrast to long-form blogging, where there are usually at least a few hundred words. Microblog posts usually involve a few hundred characters or less. Instead of posting a message on their regular blog, people who microblog use Web services designed to make microblogging very easy.

Tags: microblogging, microblog, twitter, plurk, howto, how_to on 2008-10-08 and saved by2 people -All Annotations (1) -About

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Politics Never Smelled So Tweet - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com

If Senators John McCain and Barack Obama actually do debate Friday night, you will be able to watch what thousands of viewers think of their verbal sparring almost as they talk. Twitter, the service that lets techno-hipsters broadcast their thoughts in 140-character bursts, is setting up a special politics page to make it easy to tune into the chatter.

Tags: tweet, McCain, Obama, Twitter, microblog, 140 on 2008-09-26 and saved by3 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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I ♥ TwitterKeys

TwitterKeys is a browser bookmarket that pulls up expressive characters for easy copy & paste of all those crazy unicode symbols that people ...

Tags: twitterkeys, twitter, browser, bookmarket on 2008-09-20 -All Annotations (0) -About

Even Gen X is aTwitter - TIME

If posting on a traditional long-form blog feels too ponderous and sporadic for you, Twitter may be more your speed: it limits your micro-blogposts to just 140 characters, and you can post your dispatches from your iPhone, BlackBerry or any other mobile device capable of text-messaging on-the-go.

Tags: twitter, blog, microblog, genx, text-messaging, 140, traditional on 2008-08-21 and saved by3 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Twittering, Not Frittering: Professional Development in 140 Characters | Edutopia

As soon as the lunch bell rings at his elementary school in Medford, Oregon, teacher David Cosand takes a few minutes to scan his mobile phone screen for messages that have accumulated throughout the morning in his Twitter account. In a few well-chosen words, the people Cosand follows via this free online service share their latest news, resources, questions, and (sometimes) trivia about education, technology, and related topics.
Cosand became a Twitterer about a year ago, and he now considers Twitter one of his best sources of real-time professional development. "I'm able to get information and find opportunities I wouldn't have been able to gather on my own," he says.

Tags: twitter, twittering, frittering, professional, development, blog, blogging, microblogging on 2008-08-15 and saved by26 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Hail to the Twitterer (NYTimes.com)

Big surprise: a lot of smarty-pants computer types have been snickering at John McCain lately.

Tags: twitterer, Twitter, microblog, politics, mccain, obama, 2008, technology on 2008-08-03 and saved by3 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Road Trip! Young Republicans Blog and Twitter Their Way Across the U.S. | Threat Level from Wired.com

They're like the Merry Pranksters, without the merriment or the pranks. A group of four college Republicans have set off across the country in a rented Ford Explorer to remind America that not all young people are Barack Obama supporters, and that it's still possible to drive 2,500 miles without once crossing a Democratic district.

The quartet, who call their project "Where is the Red," left from Tampa, Florida in June, and are currently in Gahanna, Ohio.

Tags: college, Republicans, Where_is_the_Red, blog, twitter, wired.com on 2008-07-29 -All Annotations (0) -About

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New Twitter Anti-Spam Bot Causes Chaos (ReadWriteWeb)

Did you notice a big drop in your Twitter follower numbers yesterday? It seems that the Twitter team recently decided to step up their Twitter spammer detection, and, in typical Twitter fashion, their algorithm sent the service haywire, leading to yet another sighting of the Fail Whale while the issue was resolved. Meanwhile, Twitterers everywhere were in an uproar over their lost follower counts.

Tags: twitter, spam, spambot, followers on 2008-07-27 and saved by2 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Twitter took off from simple to 'tweet' success

Twitter has become so popular, so fast, that keeping up with its fast-growing user base is a real issue. So many people now use Twitter to update friends that the system often crashes.

Tags: Twitter, popular, problems, crashes, tweet on 2008-07-23 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Microblogging for EFL with Plurk

Well I never thought I'd say this, but I've become a fan of microblogging! I have to say that it's mainly because of Plurk. When I first saw Twitter some time back I couldn't really understand what all the fuss was about. I had a look at a few 'twitterers' sharing such information as what they had for lunch or that they were washing their hair and decided there are levels of detail at which information stops being informative - if you know what I mean.

Tags: Microblogging, EFL, Twitter, Plurk on 2008-07-22 and saved by7 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Twitter vs Plurk

I checked out Twitter some time ago and couldn't really see what all the fuss was about. Embarrassingly, after signing up for an account people started following my Twitter even though I wasn't posting! I've also been hearing so many people raving about Twitter that I thought maybe I should give it another chance.

Tags: Plurk, Twitter, comparison on 2008-07-22 and saved by4 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Elit 2.0 (a guide to literary works on social software) at WRT: Writer Response Theory

How do you teach Web 2.0? With elit, of course. This post offers an elit work for each tool.

A number of my colleagues (myself included) attempt to teach courses around Web 2.0 technologies. The idea is that if you can just get students to blog, bookmark, twitter, annotate, wiki, wink, and aggregate, they’ll be ready for the bold new world of networked software applications– building on their existing propensity for social networking, facebooking, IMing….

What these skill and tool-based courses miss is an opportunity to enrich this education with some electronic literature. You wouldn’t think of teaching writing without some examples of powerful rhetoric or inspirational works of literary mastery. At the very least, you’d expect students to be aware of some of the poetic, evocative, and creative potential of language. So why teach a course in Web 2.0 tools without some examples that push the boundaries of functional literacy with these tools?

Tags: Web2.0, elit, blog, literacy, bookmark, twitter, annotate, wiki, wink, aggregate, social_networking on 2008-07-16 and saved by7 people -All Annotations (0) -About