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BlastFollow enables you to follow Twitter users who share your interests en masse. This is accomplished by searching for users who have tweeted with a particular hashtag recently. For example, if you are interested in ISTE 2010 conference, you may want to search for users whose tweets have included the hashtag "#ISTE10". This would be useful if you are using Twitter in your classroom for students to follow a particular class thread.

TweetGrid is a powerful Twitter Search Dashboard that allows you to search for up to 9 different topics, events, converstations, hashtags, phrases, people, groups, etc in real-time. As new tweets are created, they are automatically updated in the grid. No need to refresh the page!

And for those of you who have heard of twitter and have dismissed it thinking '"Twitter is for people with too much time on their hands" - think again Educators are connecting with each other on Twitter and using it like a big teachers lunch room that's open 24/7 whenever they need help, assistance or just want to connect with others.

If you haven't tried this, this is GREAT! It allows you to use a hashtag or a user name to demonstrate how Twitter can be of use.

1. Real-Time Communication and Engagement 2. Collaborating, Networking, and Researching with #Hashtags 3. The Twitter Backchannel 4. Checks for Understanding 5. Projects

Do you want to archive tweets from your conference? How about a class topic?