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ddeubel
Joined: 20 Jul 2005
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 Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 2:16 pm Post subject: Do you use twitter? Do you tweet? |
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I've been using twitter for awhile but have yet to use it educationally (that is, with students). I'm wondering if anyone out there has?
Also, do you use twitter? How? In what ways?
I use it to send messages to selective ELT friends. Also to consolidate information of two sites.
https://twitter.com/eflclassroom
and https://twitter.com/eltjobs
What do you tweet about?
DD
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peppermint
Joined: 13 May 2003
Location: traversing the minefields of caddishness.
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| Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 2:23 pm Post subject: |
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| I use twitter, but very rarely tweet. I use it as a sort of customized news aggregator, so I follow lots of different media outlets, and editors for them, an entertaining celebrity or two, programs I'm involved in, or want to be involved in etc., along with a few friends. |
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Gumdrop92
Joined: 08 Jun 2009
Location: USA
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| Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 3:23 pm Post subject: |
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I have a twitter and rarely tweet. I follow friends from facebook, makeup artists and the wonder girls.
The few times I have tweeted would be about clothes, what I ate that day, or something I saw on television. |
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pkang0202
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 8:21 pm Post subject: |
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I used it for a day. Didn't see the point of it.
Everyone I know uses facebook. I really don't want to follow celebrities on twitter. I really don't care enough about them to check their updates on twitter.
If you have a big following then Twitter would be great. If 3 people are following you, then what's the point of writing anything at all? |
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ddeubel
Joined: 20 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 8:32 pm Post subject: |
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| If you have a big following then Twitter would be great. If 3 people are following you, then what's the point of writing anything at all? |
You can always be a follower???? Or maybe that's no fun? But someone has to do it! I follow several others and surprisingly enough, get some good sites/info. However, the other traditional means for finding info. is much more effective (reading blogs, search, rss and reader etc...)
I read somewhere that digital natives (those of the generation where tech was ubiquitous) don't tweet and don't give a twit. They just are hooked to their cell phone and wonder why do it any other way but txt msg?
So twitter is a baby boomer, digital immigrant type of phenomena. My own question is, given that demographic, will it be sustainable or is it just hot air....?
DD
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peppermint
Joined: 13 May 2003
Location: traversing the minefields of caddishness.
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| Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 2:30 am Post subject: |
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I read somewhere that digital natives (those of the generation where tech was ubiquitous) don't tweet and don't give a twit. They just are hooked to their cell phone and wonder why do it any other way but txt msg?
So twitter is a baby boomer, digital immigrant type of phenomena. My own question is, given that demographic, will it be sustainable or is it just hot air....?
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That sounds like bull to me. Most people tweet from their phones- so there's no separation between the two, and if you look at trending topics most of the time there's a Disney manufactured celeb or three on there, that no one over 17 cares about. |
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ddeubel
Joined: 20 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 3:03 am Post subject: |
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Peppermint,
It is a vastly discussed and researched area. Really. And all conclusions are that not many teens tweet at all. Why?
There are many reasons but the two biggest are 1) the cool factor (text wins) and 2) cost (don't send tweets that just kills their pocketbook to hook up to the net - today's teens are terribly cost conscious - this is a big change from previous generations).
Anyways, I googled "teens and twitter" . No funny business. Here are JUST the first 5 items for your review.
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Why Teens Haven't Embraced Twitter�Yet | Ypulse
28 Jan 2009 ... Twitter At CES I had an audience member ask, "Are teens on Twitter?". A reporter asked me the same question the other day, so I figured I ...
www.ypulse.com/why-teens-havent-embraced-twitteryet - Cached - Similar
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Why Do Teens Shun Twitter? - PC World
Kids are often early adopters of tech trends, including social networks like Facebook and MySpace. But teens seem to prefer texting to tweeting.
www.pcworld.com/article/.../why_do_teens_shun_twitter.html - Cached - Similar
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Stats Confirm It: Teens Don't Tweet
5 Aug 2009 ... Perhaps the more interesting questions: why are teens Twitter shy? And what does this mean for Twitter's future? Let us know your thoughts ...
mashable.com/2009/08/05/teens-dont-tweet/ - Cached - Similar
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Why Teens Don't Tweet
5 Aug 2009 ... So what's going to happen with teens and Twitter? .... This should really say 'Why aren't MORE teens using Twitter? ...
mashable.com/2009/08/05/why-teens-dont-tweet/ - Cached - Similar
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Who's Driving Twitter's Popularity? Not Teenagers - NYTimes.com
26 Aug 2009 ... Despite their reputation as early adopters, young people are not flocking to Twitter. But their parents are.
www.nytimes.com/2009/08/26/technology/internet/26twitter.html - Similar |
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economicmayhem
Joined: 22 Oct 2009
Location: Yong In
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| Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 4:57 pm Post subject: My best explaination of Twitter |
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1. Know the rules
Let's first lay the ground rules.
a. You are not currently allowed to follow a username after you have "unfollowed" that user; so you can't refollow at this time.
b. You can follow up to 2000 users before the 10% rule kicks in. You can follow more users after you get more followers.
Ok, that is the rules. Let's start explaining twitter. First off it makes a lousy first impression. Announcing to the world what you're eating for breakfast when you have no followers makes you seem a bit out of it. And chances are, your first ten followers are family members who don't want to know either. So what is twitter all about? Information. News. Issues. Topics. Technology. Opinions. Conversations. Please read Time Magazines Twitter.com cover story from earlier this year(2009). http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1902604,00.html
2. Follow a lot of awesome tweeters. Few ego filled stars http://www.wefollow.com http://www.wthashtag.com
Don't follow famous users for the most part. Sure you can follow some, but generally your wasting your time. And your limited to 2000 until you get enough followers. So just follow about 20 of your favorite stars and leave it at that. They won't follow you back anyways.
You need to have some interests. use http://www.wthashtag.com to find interesting topics you like. Could be news, football, or whatever. Follow users who tweet about topics you care about. THEN RETWEET their tweets. This will attract them to your tweets and they will follow you back. Use http://www.wefollow.com also to find usernames who tweet stuff your intersted in.
Spend your first few days on twitter following 1000 of the most interesting twitter users you can find. Then retweet their messages you like.
3. Retweet messages you like.
This is important. This will attract users to your account and your tweets. They will follow you.
4. Use hashtags almost always.
Now after reading that you should get a idea of what twitter do. How do people communicate on twitter about various topics? They use hashtags. For example, #obama would be all sorts of tweets about President Obama, but there's also #BHO. News? Try #cnn #bbc. Some people don't like #cnn and think CNN is going a terrible job, so check out #msmfail or #cnnfail . These searches will give you a timeline of comments with these "hashtags". SO use hashtags to get your tweets a wider audience and bring yourself more followers.
5. User third party software
Twitter.com's website is fairly simple and lousy for tweeting. They do have a new lists feature, but it isn't all that grand. Use for example http://www.tweetree.com is a great website to get started. Later you might want to install Adobe Air and Twhirl or some other app that will help you tweet more comfortably.
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I was asked some questions about twitter after posting this to another forum. Here is my response.
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I tried to address that in "Information. News. Issues. Topics. Technology. Opinions. Conversations. Please read Time Magazines Twitter.com cover story from earlier this year(2009). http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1902604,00.html"
You can share information that interests you. And with the right tools you can do it in a hurry. For example, during Korea's match with Iran a few months back, I watched the game on TV here in Korea and from time to time tweeted what was happening, especially the score. People in Iran who were not next to a TV or whatnot were allowed to see an up to the second score of the game. This is just one example. In the Time Magazine article it does a good job explaining where Twitter fits in the "knowledge world". I'll try to paraphrase some of the Time article, but I really suggest you read it. Let say your at a conference on Education. 100 people. Now in the old days you'd get some editorial about the meeting MAYBE in some educational journal. Recently, you might get a blog entry about it but who'd know where the blog was? With Twitter, you can now have the "world" join in the conference by having those in the meeting tweeting with those outside the meeting. Please read the article.
I am following 2000+ twitter users that I find interesting. I can get information about blog posts and "news" before CNN or BBC do. The other night some states in the US had special elections to fill empty seats. Twitter did a better job of covering the situation on the ground then CNN did. Remember the Iran election? 90% of what CNN was reporting was on Twitter first. Also, with Twitter giving up to the second news and information around the globe, this allows people to get information before say a "Google News" does. Or Yahoo News. Or before Google's bots would find so and so's blog. Currently the majority of web traffic to articles, blogs and "news" is generated by people sharing the information on Twitter.
The first picture of the plane in the Hudson River not long ago was a rescue dude tweeting a picture of the plane as he approached it. Twitter had it long before CNN or the Washington Post did. Generally Twitter is about sharing information/news/blogs and such, but conversations and arguments also happen on various hashtags.
The US is in love with USA football for example. #nfl is full of the latest NFL news and injury reports to discussions during the games. |
I hope this gives you some idea of Twitter and why some find it useful. Yes, it gives a terrible first impression.
If you'd like to follow me, I'm "economicmayhem" on twitter. |
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economicmayhem
Joined: 22 Oct 2009
Location: Yong In
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| Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 8:43 pm Post subject: Who's on twitter? |
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| How about having a hashtag for us tweeters who aren't Korean and are in Korea? (obviously anyone could join in) |
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ddeubel
Joined: 20 Jul 2005
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economicmayhem
Joined: 22 Oct 2009
Location: Yong In
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| Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 2:40 am Post subject: So few. |
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So few members of this board tweet?
(bump)
Kome ahn, mohr ov u mite b ahn tw-e-t-r |
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TNizzle
Joined: 19 Nov 2009
Location: Seoul via: Indiana
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| Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 7:10 am Post subject: |
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| Kinda forgotten about it since coming to korea, as I don't get updates to my phone anymore....but still like it. |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 1:56 pm Post subject: |
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hogwonguy1979
Joined: 22 Dec 2003
Location: the racoon den
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| Posted: Sat Dec 12, 2009 3:51 am Post subject: |
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i'm on it but rarely tweet, use it to follow news and sports info and the odd celebrity's tweets. Shaq and Lance are interesting and whoever does sockington is so dead on it's not funny.
i would never let my students see my facebook or twitter info. i do too much venting on facebook |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Sat Dec 12, 2009 3:57 am Post subject: |
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| I've absolutely no interest in tweeting.......I waste enough time as it is. |
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