Create historical twitter character then tweet based on history research Quote from Mark Rounds Web-Ed Tools Paper.li, "Participants choose a historical event, create Twitter accounts for individual characters, pore over primary source documents and think critically about the times, dates, and durations of events to create hundreds of Tweets as they might have been broadcast had Twitter existed before the 21st century. They then submit all those Tweets to the engineers at TwHistory, specifying a start date for their event, and then watch it unfold - over a day, a week, a month or more - reflecting the event's actual duration."
Thomas Loud is a passionate dude. He's intelligent, adventuresome and well-intentioned in his quest to save the world.
He's also completely fictional.
And yet his Twitter account, @ThomasLoud, posts two or three tweets a day - usually about some obscure or seemingly dangerous mission overseas.
"Updates/Posts
* Facebook status updates: 700 per second
* Twitter tweets: 600 per second
* Buzz posts: 55 per second
And compared to searches
* Google: 34,000 searches per second
* Yahoo: 3,200 searches per second
* Bing: 927 searches per second"
Social networking and participatory library services - Judy O'Connell's great selection of social networking tools curated from blogs, tweets, videos etc etc. Wow!
"Welcome to the online community for our project. This is a two-year project funded by JISC to develop digital literacies in transition.
Please tweet and tag using #dlinhe"
Harvard Library Lab project where people put "awesome" items upon return into one box - which gets logged -- versus regular "return this book" box for ho-hum items
Physically this data might exist somewhere but the challenge is making it accessible to future historians.
"The average life of a web page, as best as we can tell, is about 100 days before it is either updated or disappears.
"We are grappling with digital migration as a means of preservation, rather than analogue, paper-based preservation. The Twitter archive ratchets up this activity enormously."