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G&M Report on Business: Why you need to be on Twitter now
a Jun 2009 article about the power of social media for business
How to Find Breaking News on Twitter
a quick overview of how to take advantage of the speed of news distribution via Twitter
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Twitter doesn’t compete with traditional written news (in the way blogs essentially do), but because of its speed and always on nature, it has evolved into a great tool for reporters to source breaking stories.
100 Twitter Tools to Help You Achieve All Your Goals
from | SociableBlog.com : Social Media Blog\nTwitter apps organized by purpose or function
New Twitter Research: Men Follow Men and Nobody Tweets - Conversation Starter - HarvardBusiness.org
Harvard research from May 2009 of 300,542 users of Twitter
Understanding HP Lab’s Twitter Research « Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang | Social Media, Web Marketing
Download the PDF - Social Networks that matter: Twitter under the microscope
http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/scl/papers/twitter/twitter.pdf
twitter applications | Tweeterland
An excellent purpose-based list of Twitter apps - you just look for what you're trying to accomplish
TwitterLocal
watch the Twitter public feed, caching all Tweets with a valid location. People were able to generate feeds from this site based on location
Learning with 'e's: Teaching with Twitter
Steve says he's tried some of his list of Twitter in Education ideas but doesn't specify which ones or what worked best - now that would have been more useful.
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how to harness the potential of microblogging for the benefits of my own students
Social networks that matter: Twitter under the microscope
A First Monday article by B. Huberman, D.M. Romero and Fang Wu
Despite the followers and followed list, most users only interact with a small network of tweeters
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people default to interacting with those few that matter and that reciprocate their attention
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Many people, including scholars, advertisers and political activists, see online social networks as an opportunity to study the propagation of ideas, the formation of social bonds and viral marketing, among others. This view should be tempered by our findings that a link between any two people does not necessarily imply an interaction between them. As we showed in the case of Twitter, most of the links declared within Twitter were meaningless from an interaction point of view. Thus the need to find the hidden social network; the one that matters when trying to rely on word of mouth to spread an idea,
a belief, or a trend.
Bud Talbot: Potential uses of twitter in teacher education courses
mostly a list from a brainstorming session about how to use Twitter in teacher ed
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using microblogging specifically in teacher education. I do have an ever expanding diigo list of pages which discuss uses of twitter in education in general.
twitterfeed.com : feed your blog to twitter
worth checking out - does it create a tag line or do you?
Twitter Types: Who Tweets and Why
reviews some of the most recent research about Twitter
How-To - tutorials on Twitter and more
looks interesting for more than Twitter but there are some interesting Twitter tutorials - not education focused but of general/business interest
Twitter Film Festival
Students at Duke had to tweet about films they watched over a weekend between classes - thus the first Twitfilm festival?
twtpoll :: What are the possible uses of Twitter in education?
Not exactly a definitive poll - only 2 votes!
Trend Tracker: Current and emerging Twitter trends
Check out the map of tweets around the world - spooky
bit.ly, a simple url shortener
I've seen this one used a fair bit on Twitter. Could also use TinyURL but this works too.
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