Twitterteachers

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It pulls your Twitter stream in near real-time, reformatting tweets into threaded conversations with unlimited nesting.

tweets sous forme de conversation en direct sur son site

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?

Information overload is so five years ago, but the problem it describes is all too real. Fortunately, there's hope yet for the savvy librarian: Twitter and FriendFeed turn information dissemination on its head, using friends and subscribers as a filter for the best, most credible, and most engaging information out there. As Clay Shirky said at the Web 2.0 Expo keynote in January, the problem isn't "information overload. It's filter failure."

This twitter application allows you to create a group and ahve threaded discussion there that you can switch off for your public timeline. This will be very useful when you have class discussions or workshops meetings. You can, in the free version only creatre 1 group though.

A goood overview with some stunning exampoles of how libraries and librarians are using twitter.

Twitter is one of the world's most radical management innovators. It's revolutionary because it brings 21st Century DNA roaring raucously to life: it is a living expression of the new principles of organization and management we've been discussing.

Lots of twitter teacher resources here