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Using Twitter in university research, teaching and impact activities

Excellent piece on the changing digital landscape and what it means for content. "Look around the next time you're sat on a crowded city bus during commuting hours. Most people's headphones are now plugged into their phones. If by some chance they're not listening to music then they're reading the paper, a book, checking twitter, posing on facebook, writing an email, updating their diary or taking a photo and sticking a vintage filter on it while on their phone, or tablet, or e-reader. And they probably are listening to music while doing all the above."

For anyone data minded, a recipe for making Tony Hirsts connection clouds.

Map your twitter connections.

You've probably seen this but thought I'd save anyway!

Mainly school sugestions for using Twitter but some could be adapted.

Report on research on Twitter use in student class groups.

Guide including backchannels, lectures, micro-learning ...

"ThinkUp captures your posts, replies, retweets, friends, followers, and links on social networks like Twitter and Facebook. We'll be adding more networks in the future. ThinkUp stores your social data in a database you control, and makes it easy to search, sort, filter, export, and visualize in useful ways"

Simple backchannel for events - Twitter wall like