Twitter

What is [|Twitter]and other micro-blogging tools? //[|Twitter] is a free [|social networking] and [|micro-blogging] service that allows its users to send and read other users' updates (otherwise known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length. Updates are displayed on the user's profile page and delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them. The sender can restrict delivery to those in his or her circle of friends (delivery to everyone being the default). Users can receive updates via the Twitter website, instant messaging, [|SMS], [|RSS], email or through an application such as [|Twitterrific] or [|Facebook]//. ([|Wikipedia])

Get a [|Twitter widget]

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 * Background and guides**
 * [|How to Use Twitter for Social Learning (Jane Hart)]
 * [|Top 20 Sites to Improve your Twitter Experience]
 * [|8 Reasons an Innovative Educator Uses Twitter]
 * [|Paper.li] (create a Twitter Newspaper)
 * [|Twitter for Beginners] (ebook)
 * [|An Illustrated Guide to Using Twitter] (diagram)
 * [|10 Tools for Presenting with Twitter]
 * [|12 Expert Twitter Tips for the Classroom]
 * [|Twitter: Classroom Technology]
 * [|Teaching with Twitter]
 * [|Twitter Handbook for Teachers]
 * [|The Twitter Book]
 * [|What the Heck is Twitter]
 * [|30 Essential Twitter Tutorials]
 * [|Teachers Take to Twitter]
 * [|17 Ways to Visualize the Twitter Universe]
 * [|All You Need to Know about Twitter] (New York Times)
 * [|Ten Things Teachers Should Know to Get Started with Twitter] (Tony Vincent)
 * [|25 Ways to Teach with Twitter by Sonja Cole]
 * [|Twitter and Education]
 * TwitterForEducation wiki
 * [|Hashtags for Beginners]
 * [|Truth about Twitter]
 * [|How to Verify a Tweet]
 * [|13 Things to Do on Twitter Besides Tweet]
 * [|101 Twitter Tools]
 * [|100 Tips, Apps, and Resources for Teachers on Twitter]
 * [|20 Twitter Apps Everyone Should be Using]
 * [|Twitter Chats, sponsored hashtags: How to do it right]
 * [|100 Tips to be a Smarter, Better Twitterer]
 * [|Twitter and Webinars]
 * [|9 Great Reasons Teachers Should Use Twitter]
 * [|Top 7 Twitter Tutorials on YouTube]
 * [|How People are Using Twitter at Conferences] (pdf paper)
 * [|Twitter in Schools: What does it really look like?]
 * [|Visual Guide to Twitter]
 * [|Top 100 Tools for the Twittering Teacher | Best Colleges Online]
 * [|Brief and Informal Twitter Etiquette Guide]
 * [|KidderLit] (Twitter chat about children's lit & widgets)
 * [|100 Feeds that Teach You History]
 * [|7 Top Twitter Trackers]
 * [|Twitter Academico] (diigo links)
 * [|100 Ways to Use Twitter in Your Library]
 * [|Twittering the Student Experience]
 * [|Twitter for Event Planners]

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[|Twitter in Plain English]

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 * Building your network:**
 * [|Listorious] Twitter people search
 * [|Edmodo] private microblogging for the classroom
 * [|Edmodo Guide]
 * [|My Top 100 Libr* on Twitter]
 * [|Twitter4Teachers]
 * [|Twitter WhoShouldIFollow]
 * [|Twellow]
 * [|Twitter Mosaic]
 * [|TwitR]
 * [|Directory of Learning Professionals on Twitter]
 * [|How to create groups on Twitter] (Mashable)
 * [|TweetEffect] (when are you gaining and losing followers)
 * [|Mr Tweet] Follow Mr Tweet and he will recommend people you should be following
 * [|Top 100 Librarian Tweeters]
 * [|9 Great Reasons Why Teachers Should Use Twitter]
 * [|22 Interesting Ways to Use Twitter in the Classroom]
 * [|Twubs] (for gathering stuff around metahastags)
 * [|BlastFollow] (and many other mashups)
 * [|Twitter for Librarians]
 * [|100 Leaders You Can Learn From]
 * [|Twitter for Librarians]
 * [|Diigo Site for Twitter] @ Sigms Playground NECC09
 * [|100 Learning Professionals Online]
 * [|Follow Teachers Online (Directory 2)]

//Searching Twitter://
 * //[|SearchTwitter]//
 * [|Twazzup] (sorts results and lists hot topics!)
 * [|Searchtastic]
 * [|Twendly] (who tweets about what)
 * //[|TweetScan]//
 * [|Bigola] (for Twitter, Digg, Youtube, Friendfeed, Technorati, Simpy, Daily Motion and Metacafe)
 * //[|Mailana] (Network Twitter maps and for searching people who talk about . . .)//
 * [|Listorious] Twitter people search
 * //[|Tweefind] (returns results by rank)//
 * //[|Twitscoop]//
 * //[|Twitterment]//
 * //[|Twellow] (people search, a Twitter Yellow pages)//
 * //[|Twoogle] (searches Google and Twitter simultaneously)//
 * //[|TweetGrid]//
 * //[|TwitterFall] (for upcoming trends and e//
 * [|Collecta] (realtime results from streams of news sites, popular blogs and social media, and Flickr)
 * [|Scoopla](realtime results)
 * [|Tweefind] (returns results by rank)
 * [|OneRiot] (searches items with links)
 * [|Tweetmeme] (what's hot on Twitter, since it's all about the act of re-tweeting. It's not a great search engine, though. See also
 * [|DailyRT], which has a better search function, including the capability to search only within the network of people you follow.
 * [|Monitter] (multi-column view of real-time Twitter search results)
 * [|Topsy] (finds most influential people on topic)
 * [|CrowdEye] (stats on your query, and popular related links)
 * [|Itpints]
 * [|Tweefind]
 * [|Twitority]
 * [|Twitalyzer Search]
 * [|Yauba]
 * Also visit [|CNET's Twitter Search Sites]

More on microblogging and backchanneling: Just for fun
 * [|TinyChat]
 * [|TodaysMeet]
 * [|Shambles' Microblogging Links]
 * [|YouthTwitter]
 * [|Plurk.com]
 * [|114 Ways to Twit]
 * [|Twitter Tool Roundup]
 * [|Edmodo] (private tool for use in education)
 * [|Chirps] (add your voice to Twitter)
 * [|Questler] (categorized microblogging: Query, Observation, Discovery, Research, Media and Story)
 * [|Microblogging Tools]
 * [|Twitter in Plain English]
 * [|David Pogue on Twitter]
 * [|AllTop] (Breaking Tweet News)
 * [|Twitter in the Classroom] (David Silver's post)
 * [|How to Present While People are Twittering]
 * [|#hashtags] Words prefixed with the # symbol allow people to track key topics on Twitter
 * [|HootSuite] //Ultimate Twitter toolbox// allows you to manage multiple profiles, automate tweets to other services, provides stats
 * [|Top 20 Twitter Tools]
 * [|Twitscoop] Real-life visualize of hot trending topics
 * [|8 Things I Learned about using Twitter as a Presentation Tool]
 * [|If You Are Doing An Event, Bring Twitter Into The Room]
 * [|VisibleTwitter] (for displaying Tweets and conferences--use hashtags)
 * [|PageTweet] (for tweeting more stuff, whole pages)
 * [|Twalkin] (twitter + iphone)
 * [|Klout] (assess your Twitter personality)
 * [|Historical Tweets]
 * [|TweetCloud]
 * [|TwHistory]
 * [|Remembering 9/11]
 * [|If Homer's Odyssey were Written on Twitter]
 * [|TwitterKeys] (symbols for Tweeting)
 * [|Tweetaholic Song] by [|Dave Ryder]
 * [|TwitterSheep] Builds a “tag cloud” of biographical information of your Twitter followers
 * [|Tweetoclock] Finds the best time to tweet someone
 * [|BeatMyTweet] (How quickly can you answer Twitter questions)
 * [|TwitBrain] (more quick answering challenges)
 * [|Five Stages of Twitter Acceptance]
 * [|Mailana] (Network Twitter maps)
 * [|Twaiku] (build Haiku in 140)
 * [|Twitpaper] (Twitter wallpaper)
 * [|Twittas] (who you follow, who has more followers, etc.)
 * [|TwtBizCard]
 * [|TweetStats]
 * [|Mashable's Top Twitter Songs on YouTube]