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McTeach created this "to help us through our twitter withdrawals until such time, if ever, we can overcome our addiction or Twitter gets itself all better!"

Wiki to introduce Twitter to teachers. If you are interested in Twitter and haven't given it a go yet, this would be a great place to go for an introduction.

A list of 10 tools to "track, perform better and hopefully leverage from Twitter". The list covers counters, mentions, gradings and monitor.

A directory of Twitter apps of all sorts.

paper.li collects and aggregates tweets from your Twitter stream and then categorises them under sections in the fashion of a newspaper. The newspaper is created and updated every 2 hours using all the links (articles) shared in the past 24 hours by the selected Twitter account (curator) AND the people being followed by that user (contributors)

A really well made cautionary YouTube tale about how Twitter can be used in facile ways. It opens up the topic of addictive use, though it does ignore completely the positive aspects of its use. Info says; A young man struggles against the pressure to Twitter his life away. From: "SuperNews!" An animated sketch comedy series airing on Current TV. Every Friday night at 10 PM ET/PT. For more SuperNews! go to www.current.com/supernews."

Tomaz Lasic presents this really interesting collection of advice, resources, opinions and instructional material in an overview of Twitter and ways of using it in education as aScribd for a group of educators attending Twizza (Twitter & pizza) gathering in Perth, Western Australian on April 8, 2009.

Manage multiple twitter accounts. Your twitter toolbox

"The ABC has official Twitter accounts representing subjects, individuals, programs, stations, networks and divisions."

Infographics detailing the step-by-step process of using Twitter and making it work for you.

UK tourists turned back from US over Twitter joke to 'destroy America' and dig up Marilyn Monroe's grave

A good list of innovative ways to use twitter as a learning and teaching tool

Awesome list of Twitter tools.

Twitter applications - a list

Since the Twitter folks hadn't put up a wiki yet, it seemed like a good idea to get one going out of the community.

NEW internet technologies like twitter are strengthening family ties and bridging the generation gap between kids, parents and grandparents, according to a new survey. The findings fly in the face of concerns the internet is driving a wedge between families and alienating parents from their kids. According to the Norton Online Living Report, released today, tools like twitter, Facebook, Skype, webcams, photo and video sharing sites and instant messaging are keeping families connected.

a wiki to host the development of a resource for teachers new to Twitter. Now that the site has begun to take shape, you are hereby invited to share your ideas as a member of the collaborative that will draft this e-learning resource

Atherton Bartebly's column from Mashable looking at how you can improve your chances to attract relevant and useful followers to your Twitter account.

A quirky fun site that could just as easily be used by history teachers everywhere. Most people think Twitter was "created" in 2006. These are same people who think Richard Gere created Buddhism in the 1990's. Just before Madonna created yoga. Folks, like the sun, moon, and stars, Twitter has always been. This site proves it beyond a shadow of a doubt. Books have been ruining history. So many unnecessary words. Now, with Historical Tweets, history's most amazing men and women can be fully understood, a mere 140 characters at a time.

This page has all manner of links and embeds related to Twitter including slideshare, YouTube, Prezi and e-books. The author list includes Jane Hart, Tomaz Lasic and Dean Shareski. Though it is quite comprehensive, because it has so many embeds the page can take quite a little time to load up.