Twitter, microblogging and living in the stream

Twitter, Microblogging and living in the stream

The Basics 140 character limit Can be sent from mobile, client, web interface Followers Direct messages @Replies Open api

What is twitter?

Twitter types http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/5_ways_to_have_fun_with_twitter.php

Twitter types
Twitter as added bonus
Selective interaction
Small scale social interaction
Wide peer network
Large scale users
Listeners

Some uses
Building your peer network
Requests for help
Getting feedback
students
Discussion
Promotion
Socialising
Sharing
Live-blogging events
http://vimeo.com/1466612?pg= embed&sec =1466612

Things I’ve discussed on Twitter
Best toast toppings
Twitter
PLEs
Modern Art
Football
Media reporting of new technology
SocialLearn
Music/film
Implications of web 2 for HE
New technology

The power of openness
http://tweetburner.com/
http://twitpic.com/
http://www.twibble.de/
http://twemes.com/
http://www.twhirl.org/
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/services/twitter/
http://crowdstatus.com/
http://lastfmlovetweet.com/
http://twitter.polldaddy.com/
http://www.hashtags.org/
http://search.twitter.com/
http://hahlo.com/
http://www.techhit.com/OutTwit/
http://twittervision.com/
http://twittearth.com/

My networks

The OU rep
“ The OU is a huge community and there are many web designers and developers. Until early this year we were a rather fragmented bunch but Twitter has brought us together. Not only web designers and developers but librarians, academics and support staff across the main campus and the regional and national centres. I’m talking to people in departments I didn’t even know existed and hearing about many interesting and exciting projects”
http://www.guyweb.co.uk/
“ the OU seems to have attracted alot of really switched on people as far as social web and education is concerned” http://backpass.org/2008/09/04/learning-20-update-492008/

OU networks
Planet OU
Twitterspaces
Crowdstatus
Twitter League

It’s a time sink, right? http://cogdoghouse.wikispaces.com/TwitterCycle

Will it last?

I can’t keep up!
Twitter is…
A digital water cooler
A stream you dip into
A cocktail party,
Virtual office,
What knowledge management always wanted to be,
Networking for Agoraphobics
etc
Different type of communication

WTF is the Twitter business model?
Premium?
Advertising?
Corporate?
Waiting for buy-out?
A: We still don’t know – and neither do they!

What does it all mean?
Social is the new substratum
You can’t predict how people will use a tool
Openness pays off
The cost of organisation has collapsed
Companies need to find out how to work the twitter way
Making a social connection is valuable
Network, network, network

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Twitter, microblogging and living in the stream

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