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[Pisani] "L'émergence de Twitter et de la micro-messagerie, comme outil utilisable pour la couverture journalistique d'un événement ne fait plus de doute. Elle va aussi bouleverser la façon dont nous écrivons nos articles et la manière de raconter ce dont nous rendons compte, ce qui va bien plus loin."

Tips for using twitter in education

[academhack] "I must admit that when I first heard about Twitter I thought it represented the apex of what concerns me about internet technology: solipsism and sound-bite communication. While I obviously spend a great deal of time online and thinking about the potential of these new networked digital communication structures, I also worry about the way that they too easily lead to increasingly short space and time for conversation, cutting off nuance and conversation, and what is often worse how these conversations often reduce to self-centered statements. When I first heard about Twitter I thought, this was the example par excellence of these fears, so for many months I did not investigate it at all. Then I read an article by Clive Thompson at Wired. Clive's article convinced me that perhaps it was worth giving Twitter a try. At this point I have to say, I am so glad that I did. Although I am still beginning to wrap my head around all of its varied uses-I think for the most part Twitter users themselves are still figuring this out-I have been using it for over six months now and come up with some academic uses." (...)

Top ways to Tweet!

While offering only 3 concrete pointers for collaboration, the article does paint a positive future for twitter.

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in2clouds Social Listener for Twitter

This post provides great descriptions of a whole range of 3rd party Twitter connected apps.

An article in the latest Educause Quarterly about Twitter and learning spaces.

Collect, organize, and share the best of the web. Remix your tweets, statuses, and other social goodies into a neat, tidy, permanent web page.