Twitter

=Twitter=

Twitter is a social networking tool that allows users to stay in touch with other members via 140 character messages. The limitation of 140 character is both a blessing and a curse. One one hand, keeping the limitation in mind, we would use super concise language or acronym to express our thoughts and ideas. This is a blessing for others who only need to read one or two sentences instead of a whole paragraph. This also force ourselves to keep concise instead of redundancy. However, there is a curse for it. In this video, [|How Twitter ruins your life], you can see that the limitation with 140 words leads to concise tweets with lack of background information and specific description. Thus, if someone criticize about some situations, people or phenomenon, others will follow easily because they feel emotionally echoed even though they do not know the whole picture from the short tweets. Moreover, for someone in the field of philosophy or STEM, their terminology may be very long. How can they express themselves with the limitation in words accounts? For others who are quite conservative and dislike using acronym, how can they make clear their ideas or opinions?

[|www.twitter.com]

Possible Uses for Web 2.0 Instruction

 * Search for experts
 * Participate in "twitter chats" (see [|#lrnchat])

Twitter Aides

 * Gina's [|Twitter Cheat Sheets]
 * [|eLearning Learning Twitter category]

Twitter Clients

 * [|TweetDeck] (a Twitter browser)
 * Twhirl
 * TwitterBerry
 * Siesmic

Twitter Integration

 * [|with Facebook]

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