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"There are hundreds of articles on Twitter all over the web, so I am not going to waste your time or mine on how to use twitter or the importance of it. All I can say is Twitter is the best thing that has been around in terms of marketing and networking." - direct quote from post

Below you will find 25 links to help you get started on Twitter and how to use and maximize opportunities using it's service.

Article by Vicky Hennigan - an up and comer in the parent edublogger category about the use of twitter for missing children alerts. Don't know a lot about how this would work but think that perhaps there are applications for having public twitterboards for such things.

Website using twitter for missing children alerts.

Cool listing of twitter tools.

Cool article on twitter tools and plug ins for twitter. These help us see into what can be done with twitter, the cool tool that is really a customized, unique search engine of people.

Innovations are popping up everywhere as educators find more uses for Twitter and other social media tools to cater to 21st century students.

blog post describes a new web application, "Get followers Mosaic", and how to use it.

practice run using the new web application, "Get Followers Mosaic"; walterhiggins application for Twitter

Using Remember the Milk with Twitter.

Tips from Life hacker on how to use Remember the MIlk with Twitter. If I don't renew Jott, I may have to just brush up on the twitter interface for RTM.

How to get and set reminders using twitter.

How to get and set reminders on twitter using the user "timer."

This is the tool people use to get their text upside down on Twitter

Okay, it worked in Twitter and totally freaked people out. LOL

Just tried using twitbin and shoot, if freaked me out . . . worked fine.

A teacher who used twitter on a field trip. This is a a neat idea. It would be great to harness the power of cell phones to capture observations and then return to school to debrief.

A teacher who used twitter on a field trip. This is a a neat idea. It would be great to harness the power of cell phones to capture observations and then return to school to debrief.

#chirpstory is a tool for creating and sharing stories from twitter using social media more https://twitter.com/#!/web20education

Recommended by other Diigo users. Have others in this group found this useful?

Recommended by other Diigo users. (i.e. Great collection of resources and links to get teachers (and anyone) started using Twitter. --Debra Finger 6/6/12.)

You don't need a $800 book to figure out Twitter and how to use it for marketing purposes. Geez. It's not rocket science for crying out loud.

This is a great article about twitter. And I really like the idea that it is a LOT about what we can DO with twitter data that makes it so compelling (all those great apps out there). "Websites that once saw their traffic dominated by Google search queries are seeing a growing number of new visitors coming from "passed links" at social networks like Twitter and Facebook. This is what the naysayers fail to understand: it's just as easy to use Twitter to spread the word about a brilliant 10,000-word New Yorker article as it is to spread the word about your Lucky Charms habit. Put those three elements together - social networks, live searching and link-sharing - and you have a cocktail that poses what may amount to the most interesting alternative to Google's near monopoly in searching."

Article about twitter and many ways it can be used effectively. Overview of the current "state of play"

Use Twitter in PowerPoint

"increase your social popularity by using the right hashtags. Sopularity helps you to add the most appropriate hashtags to your tweets. This leads to a significant increase of the searchability and popularity of your tweets."

Want to save or analyse all the tweets which used a particular hashtag? Enter a hashtag below to get a list of all the tweets which referenced it, to download as a CSV spreadsheet or share with friends or colleagues - great for post-event analysis. No logins or spam tweets involved, promise.