WTF is ?
Barkley Education Series
April 2008
Dustin Jacobsen, Technical Director
http://twitter.com/dustinj
djacobsen@barkleyus.com
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Agenda
 Introduction
 Twitter Overview
 Usage (Current/Future)
 Applications
 Live Feed
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Twitter is the latest shiny toy in
the web 2.0 toolbox
Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate
and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to
one simple question: What are you doing? Bloggers can use it as a
mini-blogging tool. Developers can use the API to make Twitter tools of
their own.
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The New York Times calls Twitter \"one of the
fastest-growing phenomena on the Internet.\"
TIME