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A great resource book with good ideas and how to's: What is Twitter? Why is it so popular? And how can its 140-character messages be a serious-and effective-way to boost your business? This book answers all of those questions and many more. A friendly, full-color guide, The Twitter Book is packed with helpful examples, solid advice, and clear explanations guaranteed to turn you into a Twitter power user. Co-written by two widely recognized Twitter experts, this book will help you: * Connect with colleagues, customers, family, and friends * Stand out on Twitter, whether you're new to the service or already have experience * Avoid common Twitter gaffes and pitfalls * Use Twitter-and the best third-party tools that help you manage it-to build a critical professional communications channel If you want to learn how to use Twitter like a pro, The Twitter Book will quickly get you up to speed.

"Despite the widespread use of social media by students and its increased use by instructors, very little empirical evidence is available concerning the impact of social media use on student learning and engagement. This paper describes our semester-long experimental study to determine if using Twitter - the microblogging and social networking platform most amenable to ongoing, public dialogue - for educationally relevant purposes can impact college student engagement and grades. A total of 125 students taking a first year seminar course for pre-health professional majors participated in this study (70 in the experimental group and 55 in the control group). With the experimental group, Twitter was used for various types of academic and co-curricular discussions. Engagement was quantified by using a 19-item scale based on the National Survey of Student Engagement. To assess differences in engagement and grades, we used mixed effects analysis of variance (ANOVA) models, with class sections nested within treatment groups. We also conducted content analyses of samples of Twitter exchanges. The ANOVA results showed that the experimental group had a significantly greater increase in engagement than the control group, as well as higher semester grade point averages. Analyses of Twitter communications showed that students and faculty were both highly engaged in the learning process in ways that transcended traditional classroom activities. This study provides experimental evidence that Twitter can be used as an educational tool to help engage students and to mobilize faculty into a more active and participatory role."

Using purely the public twitter API Dennis has created an accessible version of Twitter. The site http://accessibletwitter.com/ aims to fix all of the issues above and continue to support and advocate for twitter to be accessible to all. Below is the current progress of the project.

Twitter has changed from being a tool most people thought is simply yet another way for people on the Internet to waste time to a platform for social change, social networking and dare I say it even business. One of the aspects that Twitter has been lacking is an accessible interface to the service. Thankfully Dennis Lembrée is changing all this. Schalk Neethling sat down with Dennis to learn more about Accessible Twitter, the problems he faces in creating it and what the future will hold.

But what you rapidly find is that you're taken by the scruff of the internet over to Twitter where you're, um, encouraged to authorise the game to access your Twitter feed. (It uses the OAuth system, which means that the people behind playmobsterworld don't get your username or password. The owners have chosen to hide their identities by using Domainsbyproxy, and haven't left an email address on their website, so we don't know who they are, and couldn't contact them.) Once you've done that, the "game" will then spew that invitation in the form of a direct message to everyone it can. (The people who receive it are the ones who follow you, and who you also follow. They're the only group you can direct message on Twitter.) And so those DMs turn up in peoples' feeds, and they click them.. and so on. You'd think that by now Mobster World would be played by everyone. Not so. Instead many people - the non-players - get annoyed by it.

This guest post is written by Geoff Cook, cofounder and CEO of social networking site myYearbook. Everything about Twitter is looking up these days, except for a few pesky uptime issues of course. But a number of recent reports also suggest teens are one demographic that just doesn't seem to be embracing Twitter like the rest of us. So while I'm excited to see Robert Scoble proclaims that Twitter is worth a cool $10 billion, it might be a good idea to analyze a little data to try to understand why teens just don't think Twitter is as rad as the rest of us.

# multiTwit - NEW - Send Tweets to Multiple accounts from your desktop. No need to give a website your login any more. # Twitter Follower Widget - Display the people that are following you on Twitter. # Twitter Friends Widget - Display the people you are following on Twitter. # The Javascript Hand Grenade - Protect your landing pages from hackers, snarfers and code thieves.

Wow, what a great way to think critically about Twitter.  This reminds me of David Buckingham's book, Media Education.  In his book he offers suggestions for how to teach different media and how to think critically about the constructs of that media in society effect the students.  All of these Twitter tools would be a great way for students to consider how they use words in every day life!  This would help to create a very sophisticated analysis.  

The British government is proposing that Twitter is to be taught in primary (elementary) schools as part of a wider push to make online communication and social media a permanent part of the UK's education system. And that's not all. Kids will be taught blogging, podcasting and how to use Wikipedia alongside Maths, English and Science.

"Organize, manage and expand your Twitter community through smart Twitter lists. Our dynamic lists help you find and focus on the right people within, and just outside, your Twitter community. "

Twitter is the great equalizer. It doesn't matter if you have 100 followers or 10,000, you can break news. That's because all tweets are recorded and indexed at search.twitter.com. If someone types the right keyword(s), they can find your tweet. Breaking Tweets prides itself on giving many different types of Twitterers credit for breaking news, whether it be someone in Honduras with a dozen followers recording the first "earthquake" tweet or a news organization providing the first details of a major story. But how do you know a tweet's legitimate?

Ganz offensichtlich haben einige Freaks nun entdeckt, dass man via Twitter selbst an die Passwörter der Nutzer kommen kann. Es wurden Phishing-Seiten erstellt, die der echten Twitter-Startseite verblüffend ähnlich sehen. Sie unterscheiden sich lediglich in der Adresszeile.