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The old static blog is indeed dying. But it's being resurrected by Wordpress as a real-time social media personal portal. Check out Buddy Press and P2; they help you aggregate your Facebook/Twitter material inside your blog.

Go beyond the standard Twitter question "What are you doing?" to make your tweets more interesting. Go beyond status updates. Get creative and treat Twitter as a 140-character canvas!

You search for a url, Twitter name, phrase or hashtag. TweetReach analyzes the tweets that match your search.TweetReach reports the reach and exposure data for those tweets.

Evan Williams and Biz Stone of Twitter Robyn Twomey for TIME ENLARGE + Print Reprints Email Twitter Linkedin Buzz up! (44) Facebook MORE... Add to my: del.icio.us Technorati reddit Google Bookmarks Mixx StumbleUpon Blog this on: TypePad LiveJournal Blogger MySpace The one thing you can say for certain about Twitter is that it makes a terrible first impression. You hear about this new service that lets you send 140-character updates to your "followers," and you think, Why does the world need this, exactly? It's not as if we were all sitting around four years ago scratching our heads and saying, "If only there were a technology that would allow me to send a message to my 50 friends, alerting them in real time about my choice of breakfast cereal." Related Audio Host Katherine Lanpher talks with TIME's Just Fox on stocks vs. bonds and Barbara Kiviat about the housing market's new movement Download | Subscribe Specials The World of Twitter Specials Top 10 Celebrity Twitter Feeds Specials 10 Ways Twitter Will Change American Business Stories The TIME 100: The Twitter Guys by Ashton Kutcher More Related The TIME 100: The Twitter Guys by Ashton Kutcher The TIME 100: The Twitter Guys by Ashton Kutcher The Future of Twitter I, too, was skeptical at first. I had met Evan Williams, Twitter's co-creator, a couple of times in the dotcom '90s when he was launching Blogger.com. Back then, what people worried about was the threat that blogging posed to our attention span, with telegraphic, two-paragraph blog posts replacing long-format articles and books. With Twitter, Williams w

"Injecting Twitter into that conversation fundamentally changed the rules of engagement. It added a second layer of discussion and brought a wider audience into what would have been a private exchange. And it gave the event an afterlife on the Web. Yes, it was built entirely out of 140-character messages, but the sum total of those tweets added up to something truly substantive, like a suspension bridge made of pebbles."

Links to some good resources on using twitter in higher ed.

Twitter guide book

Pour le réseau social, l'enjeu est clair : encourager les utilisateurs à partager leurs messages avec le monde plutôt que de se limiter à leur cercle restreint d'amis.

Handy little instructional vid for tweetdeck

See twitter like someone else does ie enter their username and see what they see (apart from protected updates I guess)

Article on twitter and faculty members in higher ed. I didn't see anything surprising in the findings!!!