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Twitter is the most popular microblogging application, with almost one million users called twitterers, who can send and receive messages via the web, SMS, instant messaging clients, and by third party applications. Posts are limited to 140 text characters in length. With a solid experience in using Web2.0 technologies in education, the authors are trying to provide arguments for using Twitter as microblogging platform / social network in education, underlining its advantages, but also possible bad points. The article also presents an application related to the Romanian Twitosphere and a Romanian microblogging platform, already used in education. technologies education Web2.0 collaborative microblogging Twitter Technology-Web-20 published research

According to Brown and Adler, there are 30 million people qualified to go to college, but who have no place to go to. They discuss the many options created by new technologies for bringing education to the wider world, beyond just the wealthier nations that have many colleges and universities.

A large number of followers does not equate to huge influence in Twitter.