Twitter is a social networking and microblogging service that is designed to let the users answer the question, “What are you doing?” by sending short text messages over 140 characters in length called “tweets”, to your friends, or followers to say whatever they care to say.
Similar to social networking sites like Facebook – which has itself evolved to include mini updates – Twitter let users create formal friendship, which collectively establish numerous and interconnected networks of users. In addition, Twitter works with cell phones and other SMS clients, making it an easy way for mobile users to stay in touch virtually anywhere.
Twitter also has been described as a “walking into a room of conversation”. People can find public interest and collect hundreds or even thousands of friends and followers. It keeps connected with a selected group of colleagues and acquiantances through shared space that creates a channel of communication, and also facilitates a new way of seeing and understanding people.
Much has been written about the benefits of active learning strategies—using tools and techniques that engage students in ways other than simply listening to an instructor and taking notes. In the same way that clickers facilitate active learning, Twitter could be used in an academic setting to foster interaction about a given topic. Metacognition—the practice of thinking about and reflecting on your learning—has been shown to benefit comprehension and retention. As a tool for students or professional colleagues to compare thoughts about a topic, Twitter can be a viable platform for metacognition, forcing users to be brief and to the point—an important skill in thinking clearly and communicating effectively. In addition, Twitter can provide a simple way for attendees at a conference to share thoughts about particular sessions and activities with others at the event and those unable to attend.
The benefits of Twitter is that it can serve as a “virtual water cooler” where people talk about work, the weather, sports, or anything else that comes up. Twitter’s networking component lets you make connections with your friends’ friends, and this dynamic can lead to serendipitous professional or personal relationships with other Twitterers. Another is Twitter profile also featured updates leading up to the event. A Twitter profile that advertises short-term (a number of hours or days) promotional specials on computers and other hardware. Example is the Opinion Journal, an offshoot of the Wall Street Journal, has a Twitter profile, as does Reuters, which posts new headlines with links to the full stories and everything that they wish to inform, or share in this social networking that the followers or friends will become updated.
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