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The micro-blogging website Twitter is buying the location tracking start-up Mixer Labs for an undisclosed sum.

This is an interesting breakdown of the 2010 stats related to Facebook vs Twitter.

Offers ten ways authors can harness the power of Twitter to promote a book:

This teacher's kids want to use pop music they love for a project.  Their teacher wants them to do so legally and with respect, so he's trying to contact the artist directly.  To get her attention (the artist is Taylor Swift), he's asking all his Twitter PLN to re-tweet his open letter to Taylor Swift to her Twitter account, so her mentions column will be filled with the RT of his letter.  If you Tweet, please copy and paste this into Twitter:RT @thenerdyteacher An Open Letter to @TaylorSwift13 - http://bit.ly/gV6uaH

A super simple demonstration of how to get started on Twitter (for educators)

Connects your Twitter account to your Google Calendar. Add events in a snap from your favorite Twitter client.

If you use Twitter, here is a list of History teachers who have said hello to #historyteacher so we can all follow each other via http://tinyurl.com/chwzq8 (be sure to add your name by sending your own hello to #historyteacher!)

This really interesting presentation by Elizabeth Koh presents a great overview of a range of microblogging tools in both education and in other areas. As Elizabeth says, microblogging: "......is taking the IT world by storm, with Twitter its (in)famous poster boy blazing the way. With the ability to post short messages and broadcast them, microblogging has possibly sparked another mode of computer-mediated communication. Twitter, the company which started it all, is seeing massive growth in the number of subscribers. Both individuals and organizations are taking to microblogging as part of an arsenal of Web 2.0 tools. This technology update will introduce microblogging and provide an overview of such services. It will compare microblogging with similar technologies and present applications for the enterprise and education."

Enter your twitter username to see a tag cloud from the 'bios' of your twitter flock.

If you want to see which Twitter lists you might be on then check in here with your username. You will then be given a tag cloud indicative of which lists you are on. Clicking on the tags highlights and links to the lists you are on.

Tom Barrett's ideas on twitter

This is a must for those teachers looking for support and resources via online networks in twitter and Google Plus

The Ultimate Guide To Using Twitter In Education: http://t.co/BuXWT1mCpd

Good tips for people starting out on Twitter

A 4 min screencast I made of a lightning workshop about #Twitter and #PLN that I ran at school.

"ManageFlitter enables you to # Clean up and manage who you follow. # Find out who isn't following you back. # Find out which inactive accounts you follow. # Easily search inside your Twitter stream."

"fring™ is a mobile internet service & community that enables you to access & interact with your social networks on-the-go, make free calls and live chat with all your fring, Skype®, MSN® Messenger, Google Talk™, ICQ, SIP, Twitter, Yahoo!™ and AIM®* friends using your handset's internet connection rather than costly cellular airtime minutes."

The presentations on this site were originally inspired by Tom Barrett's 'Interesting Ways' presentations. These Google Docs presentations were created by Tom, with lots of contributions from the fantastic teachers who read his blog and are part of his Twitter network. Mark Warner decided to try something similar, based upon 'Amazing Ways to Inspire Writing'. He was really pleased with the response, in terms of contributions from others, and positive comments about the idea and thought that it was worth making a site to host the presentations, rather than relying on people to remember long and complicated Google Docs addresses. Tom, Doug Belshaw and Joe Rowing have also kindly given their permission for their 'Interesting Ways' presentations to be embedded here for others to see. If you have any amazing ideas to add to the presentations on the site, or you can suggest a new topic, please get in touch, via email or Twitter.

Another of Tom Barrett's great Google Docs presentations that others can add to, this time on how to use Twitter in the classroom.