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An article publish in the Journal of Information Systems Education on how the use of Twitter in an online class can enhance social presence

"NEW forms of media have always caused moral panics: the printing press, newspapers, paperbacks and television were all once denounced as threats to their consumers' brainpower and moral fiber. So too with electronic technologies. PowerPoint, we're told, is reducing discourse to bullet points. Search engines lower our intelligence, encouraging us to skim on the surface of knowledge rather than dive to its depths. Twitter is shrinking our attention spans. But such panics often fail basic reality checks. When comic books were accused of turning juveniles into delinquents in the 1950s, crime was falling to record lows, just as the denunciations of video games in the 1990s coincided with the great American crime decline. The decades of television, transistor radios and rock videos were also decades in which I.Q. scores rose continuously."

While mostly focused on K-12, this article still provides some good info on Twitter use in education.

This article has some details on how to delete accounts from social media sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. Good primer.

Create an interactive class textbook using Flipboard. Create a twitter account and have students post video, blogs, etc. about topics they are discussing in class. An excellent idea on how to incorporate the iPad/Flipboard into the classroom