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"Published on 21 Mar 2014
Eight years ago, Jack Dorsey let the world know he was setting up his "twttr." How did Twitter go from a 140-character experiment to trading on the NYSE? Follow the social network's growth over the years."

"Knowledge seldom takes the place of experience. So while I muddled through my first few weeks on Twitter-experimenting and fiddling-I noticed the many things I could have only learned by doing. Here are the big ones. Call them Twitter tips for beginners."

An invaluable guide for Australian Teachers on twitter. Very comprehensive and organised by subject area on google spreadsheet. I will put in my favourites:

"Last November, a young man was ordered by a NSW court to pay A$105,000 in damages for defaming a teacher at his former school on Twitter. The decision, which only came to light earlier this week, should serve as a reminder to all users of the legal risks involved in using social media."

"Twitter Co-Founder Evan Williams has an ambitious new plan: to shift our daily reading habits away from consuming incremental news bites and towards engaging with enlightened ideas curated by an intelligent algorithm. Ordinarily, such a goal would seem utopian, were it not for the fact that Williams is among a handful of Internet pioneers who have disrupted the media industry multiple times.

The Difference Between Knowledge and Experience. Published by Lifehacker.

The Difference Between Knowledge and Experience

Long read very interesting http://t.co/arzreXWYT3
The Difference Between Knowledge and Experience

Long read very interesting http://t.co/arzreXWYT3
- Michael Jongen (Michael_Jongen) http://twitter.com/Michael_Jongen/status/431311560116809728

"From basements and bedrooms to classrooms and cloistered locations, hundreds of students hit the "record" button on a smartphone and delivered up novel interpretations of Shakespeare's words."

"Starting today, we are introducing the ability to create custom timelines in TweetDeck. Custom timelines, which were just announced, are a new type of timeline that you control by selecting the Tweets you want to include."

"Breakthrough innovation uses eyewitness accounts on social media to map and respond to new outbreaks"

"These days, social media and online apps have become a major source of disaster information and warnings. But how much can we trust them?"

"Twitter is rolling out an option to ease the use of direct messages. Traditionally, Twitter has allowed users who follow each other to send direct messages back and forth, or for users to send direct messages to accounts that follow them. A new setting, that appears to have been rolling out over the past week, allows Twitter users to receive direct messages from any follower. "If you check this option, any Twitter user that follows you will be able to send you a DM, regardless of whether you decide to follow them back," says a note before the option is turned on."

"Twitter users often make the decision of whether or not to follow someone in seconds, meaning that you have very little time to impress. We looked into why people chose not to follow profiles on Twitter, and crowdsourced a variety of reasons that users give for not hitting that "Follow" button."

"Storyful is the first news agency of the social media age. We help our clients discover, verify and distribute the most valuable content on social media platforms."