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Overall, Twitter is best thought of as a message queuing/routing system built on top of a cache/repository platform.

If you want to discover the power of Curation, Follow https://twitter.com/#!/web20education

Though not exclusively about Twitter, this site has loads of useful articles, tools, widgets and forums for social networking enthusiasts.

Many forums, Blogs, and other web services allow you to have images as part of your signature. twitsig.com allows you to display your current twitter status as an image.

Twitter Moms - groups of twitter lovers with a commonality in being mothers. There are all sorts of groups - from crafting to technology, business to just being moms. Joining up is like joining a Ning network, there are forums, badges, photos, events, personal pages, and subgroups under the Twitter Moms flagship.

"Because social-networking tools are forums for personalized, socially focused conversations, the communities that spring from these tools are person/people-centered. As Porter explained, this person/people-centeredness results in the value of participation being opaque for anyone who is not participating. To address this problem, we made sure that students who chose not to participate (because the value of participation is opaque for them) had access to our tweets by incorporating an RSS feed-like Twitter widget in our LMS. (See Figure 5.) Many widgets like these can be found online, although we should note that this particular widget has limitations. As seen in the example in Figure 5, the widget only displays Joni's posts, not the back-and-forth exchanges between her and members of her network. Students might incorrectly assume that the interaction is one-sided and less than dynamic. Besides keeping students apprised of the resources we shared via Twitter, however, this widget allowed them to vicariously discover Twitter's value. Some students later chose to join us in Twitter because they had a better understanding of what they were getting into because its value was less opaque. Ultimately, we found that Twitter helped us achieve our student-engagement objective, but we also quickly discovered that students' Twitter participation led to other notable instructional outcomes."

Describes how to visualize twitter feeds from a large venue.

Tweetboard is True Twitter Conversation for your website. Tweetboard is a fun and engaging micro-forum type application for your website. It pulls your Twitter stream in near real-time (max 1 min delay), reformatting tweets into threaded conversations with unlimited nesting. Conversations that spun off the original conversation are also threaded in-line, giving your site visitors full perspective of what's being discussed.

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