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Twitter for Education

Short form of Twitter for Academia

• Class chatter both inside (if allowed) and outside: often only tangentially related
• Classroom community carries on into the real world
• A sense of the world: check the public tweet timeline but beware of obscene language
• Track a word: use Twitter search to follow discussion about a topic over time (word has to be relatively uncommon)
• Follow a professional or famous person: use Twitter search or actually follow them
• Get instant feedback: ask a question and often receive many answers quickly
• Public notepad: share ideas while planning, creating

Twitter for Business

• Some thoughts from Des Walsh:
  • Create a virtual community across individuals working alone, departments, companies
  • Information share
  • Find tips on events, software and other artifacts
  • Follow business gurus
• Twitter as a Business Tool: blog