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Vancouver police twitter a day in the life. CTV.ca News Staff Date: Thu. Dec. 9 2010 10:29 PM ET From the mundane to the compelling, the Vancouver Police Department posted every call they received to Twitter on Thursday, in a plan that is equally about social networking as it is about crime prevention. Sample tweets included: "Man in custody after an attempted theft of beer from a loading truck," and "police are looking for an elderly man who wandered away from his care home." While officers took out personal information that may have violated privacy protocols, the stream of short entries read like the daily diary of a police department. The stream was for a 24-hour period and won't be continued on Friday. Vancouver police say that the stream is a chance to educate people on the volume of calls they get each day, and also to publicize the launch of the force's Twitter profile, which they believe will become a crucial link to the community. "We're going to keep people much more updated with what the Vancouver police is doing," said Const. Anne Longley Thursday. While the gambit proved effective (some 2,300 people began following the VPD by Thursday evening), it didn't always run like clockwork. "Sorry for the last typo's ... I think I need a break soon!" read one tweet. But the micro-blog entries also show potential for the future. In one entry, the VDP wrote: "Report of a suspicious person checking out a building and property. Police looking for him now. Call 9-1-1 if you see suspicious activity!" Considering the instant and far-reaching applications of the web, a Twitter profile could become a savvy crime-fighting tool in the future. Vancouver isn't the only police force in the country to launch a Twitter profile; most departments in Canada already have them. A media expert said that the force's decision to get on Twitter is savvy, given the increasing importance of communicating online. Twitter recently announced that it has 145 million users -- not bad consideri

A front page (!) article in the Wall Street Journal that makes a point of sarcastically laughing at people who couldn't broadcast their "every thought" to the world when Twitter went down for a few hours. The problem: the authors don't even mention any other use for Twitter except soul-baring (education, relevant link sharing, etc.).

twitter assignment

yet another index of twitter stuff, but I think there are ideas and examples, too

one professor in the English department used Twitter in the classroom to communicate with her students

another article on writing and twitter

Congregants at an Easter Mass in Matthews NC twitter during the service and it's projected on screens.

Congregants at an Easter Mass in Matthews NC twitter during the service.

List of universities on Twitter.

These kids could be my students. For a group that didn't even know what Twitter was last year, this year many flat out resent it and refuse to open themselves to the idea that we can build class community or share resources by using it.

Oh, and one more tip: when you're trying to get real work done, it's also O.K. to close Twitter. It may be powerful, useful, addictive and fascinating - but in the end, it's still an Internet time drain.

Twitter and status updating

tools for using twitter to do live polling then integrate into ppt

Using Twitter in Higher Education, presented by the Teaching, Learning, and Technology Group (TLT Group). FridayLive conference resources.

As hotels, airlines and other travel companies line up on Twitter to promote their brands, customers who voice their grievances in the form of tweets are getting surprisingly fast responses for everything from bad airplane seats to poor room service.

Next to Normal, the musical, was posted in Tweets and Twitter, but there's also a widget linked from this home site that you can use to listen to the songs.

Whom does Martha Stewart follow? How does Twitter work for celebrities?

digital natives or something else? i wonder if the teachers will have to go through a crash course seminar on twitter!?

Cites Kathy Yancey, covered in NCTE newsie.

Twitter in Hell.

on twitter usage patterns