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We've got your Twitterature - 0 views

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shared by Danny Nicholson on 26 May 09 - Cached
  • Danny Nicholson on 26 May 09
     
    140 characters are all you get on Twitter. What if the literary greats had used it? Here, the Life staff re-imagines the classics as tweets.
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TWEET SUCCESS: Why We Love Twitter's 140 Character Limit - 0 views

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shared by Elizabeth Koh on 22 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Even so, I can be away from Twitter for hours on end and feel absolutely no compunction to go back and read the tweets I missed. Nor is there any social expectation to do so. That’s refreshing!
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Twitter gets you fired in 140 characters or less - Technotica- msnbc.com - 0 views

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shared by A. T. Wyatt on 24 Mar 09 - No Cached
  • A. T. Wyatt on 24 Mar 09
     
    Story about indiscreet tweeting. . .and how it can take on a life of its own.
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Mr. Tweet Recommends Friends to Follow - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by Levy Rivers on 17 Dec 08 - Cached
  • Luckily for Twitterers, there’s Mr. Tweet, a free recommendation service that analyzes your current network to suggest new friends and members whose feeds may be of interest. Like the Shorty Awards and many other third-party applications that make use of Twitter’s platform, the company has no official ties to San Francisco-based Twitter, which allows people to post messages up to 140 characters in
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How We Use Twitter for Journalism - ReadWriteWeb - 0 views

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shared by Kim Woodbridge on 26 Apr 08 - Cached
  • Kate Olson on 26 Apr 08
     
    How useful can communication limited to 140 characters be for serious journalism? It turns out that the short messages you find on Twitter have proven wildly useful for some writers penning larger pieces.
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Twitter inspires extra-short short stories - Los Angeles Times - 0 views

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shared by Kim Woodbridge on 02 Jun 08 - Cached
  • Kim Woodbridge on 02 Jun 08
     
    " 'Time travel works!' the note read. 'However you can only travel to the past and one-way.' I recognized my own handwriting and felt a chill."
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Twittering, Not Frittering: Professional Development in 140 Characters | Edutopia - 0 views

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shared by Josh Allen on 14 Aug 08 - Cached
  • Cheryl Davis on 14 Aug 08
     
    Members of the education community microblog about what they're doing." /> text/html; charset=utf-8
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Jeremey's Weblog: Why Twitter? - 0 views

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shared by anonymous on 27 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Twitter is direct. I can work out lunch arrangements or a meeting about a business opportunity very quickly, with multiple people, from anywhere, as long as I have at least SMS access. This gets at the heart of what Twitter is... Twitter is another level of indirection (for you C programmers), or another layer (for you networking people), for connecting people, and that, combined with its simplicity and ease of operation, makes it very powerful. It's a big lever and a light touch is all you need
  • Finally, Twitter is a powerful tool for "grass-roots" information. All of that connectedness and genuine interaction leads to a lot of real-time information sharing, everything from restaurant criticism to traffic reports to emergencies, with real results. Real people help each other, inform each other, etc. This is what the media have picked up on and part of why they now can't speak a sentence without saying something about Twitter.
    • Iris Deters
      Iris Deters on 16 Jun 09
       
      Good summary. At first I didn't get what all the fuss was about. Why would one want to read or even monitor someone's constant stream of 140 characters gibberish. I'm too busy as it is. Later I start to realize, hey, this is a much quicker way of checking out what your friends are up to, getting some instant Q&A response, or conducting research on practically anything or getting a real-time pulse of the latest buzz. Then I also realize this is so much easier than to write a blog - which one always needs to be so much more deliberate in composing a good post. Whereas Twitter, you just need to share whatever on your mind at the moment. Thus, another Twitter convert is born, and loving it!
    • Maggie Tsai
      Maggie Tsai on 16 Jun 09
       
      You come to the right group :-)
  • anonymous on 27 Apr 09
     
    One guys idea of the Why's of using Twitter.
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How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live - TIME - 0 views

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shared by A. T. Wyatt on 05 Jun 09 - Cached
  • Yes, the breakfast-status updates turned out to be more interesting than we thought. But the key development with Twitter is how we've jury-rigged the system to do things that its creators never dreamed of.
  • In short, the most fascinating thing about Twitter is not what it's doing to us. It's what we're doing to it.
  • 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.
  • A. T. Wyatt on 05 Jun 09
     
    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."
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Swine flu: Twitter's power to misinform | Net Effect - 0 views

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shared by Elizabeth Koh on 27 Apr 09 - No Cached
  • Twitter seems to have introduced too much noise into the process
  • The problem with Twitter is that there is very little context you can fit into 140 characters, even less so if all you are doing is watching a stream of messages that mention “swine flu.”
  • Now, the lack of context is probably not a problem in 99% of discussions happening on Twitter – or, at least, it's not a problem with devastating global consequences.
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  • networked panic
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Twitblogs - 0 views

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shared by anonymous on 13 Dec 08 - Cached
  • anonymous on 13 Dec 08
     
    Sometimes 140 characters is just not enough to say or show what you really want to say
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