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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

Great info/tutorial about creating background for Twitter profile page

Make presentations more engaging with Twitter

easy way to see what the conversation is about a topic - how it is trending on twitter

Here is a guide book on the basics of Twitters. Very helpful information.

Twitter used for recruiting employees

If you're a Recruiter who has been resisting the idea of checking out Twitter for finding candidates or for sharing your job openings, you're not alone. But

Smart employers are using Twitter to distribute their job postings and to attract job seekers to their jobs. This is a list of the top 50 doing that now.

presentation via Google Docs about Twitter in the Classroom

I really like this and believe I can use this with my students when discussing Web 2.0. Thanks.

Search Google and Twitter at the same time - split-screen display of the results

This is neat--what will they think of next???

Employers using Twitter as a recruiting tool

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

Very interesting site that displays lots of different statistics on a user's twitter behavior - lots of possible uses in classroom-math (obviously,) sociology, . . .

Just for fun - comic strip episode about Twitter

This is a really awesome Web site!!!

If you have not played with Windows Live create you an account today it is awesome. 250 GB of storage space absolutely FREE. Forget using a jump drive ever again--as long as you have Internet access. I got hooked on it at the Cengage conference in March.