Not very scientific, but I was trying to emulate the groups feature that is on our desktop clients. Successful (kinda) after making a mess of it first~
STAGE 1
The plan was that there are certain folks I tweet more often – we all do. So in the desktop applications they allow us to create groups so that we can watch our favorite tweeters, or pay attention to a topic of our choice. Leading on from this there is still no real iPhone application that lets us enjoy this feature. Thinking along those lines I decided to implement my own group system. Below is SeesmicDesktop with multiple account support on the left hand side.
These are my current choice of the top sites that are really pushing out the technology in education information. They are not in any order, just the ones that I find myself hanging out at regularly. You may be reading them all already or have your own favorites… Here are my choices:
1 – Christopher D. Sessums The current post on “Is social media play time over” raises some good thoughts about how we are using it, and how to develop it.
These same questions could be asked by educators and educational technologists interested in adopting or integrating social media into the classroom or staff development networks.
I know, I know, more blooming stuff about Twitter, and how boring this must all be getting….
I had to write this post. It’s about all things good in the Twitterverse. After all my complaining, I’m bigging it all back up again, because without twitter things would be different.
My wordpress template would still be messed up! When I had ‘issues’ as we all do with templates messing up when we edit the code, I got help from digital nature to sort it out. (more…)
[First: BIG thanks to my CDC group Yr1 & YR2 for doing this session with me!!! Three cheers and sorry if I didn't include your pic or your tweet in the post.]
I wrote a post about Twitter and the integration of it as a learning resource and teaching device. It can be a good source for research. Tying in with that is the notion of getting students to use technology to better understand it.
I decided to try some of the ‘Twitter in the Classroom’ techniques. I set up an account called @interactivity, (that is actually the module title) but also our topic of discussion.
@BeaucoupKevin Top Tweet ABOUT [I try to post every 3rd day on this blog, a new topic, or view of something technological realated. I decided that the days without new content, I'm going to post what I think is a top tweet. I have been collecting and marking favorites on Twitter since I joined, so I have a few to get through! The ones I put up are just interesting for the comments that were made, I have many favourites that are links and other useful reference materials, but I won't be featuring them in these entries. I hope you enjoy them!]
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There is a service called Qwitter. This provides you with an automated email to notify you when you lose a follower and tells you what you tweeted when they left. Pretty simple when it works.
UPDATE: The honeymoon is over.
Over the last few weeks, I have found a change while using Twitter. It might be that my own use has gone through a ‘honeymoon’ period and I’m now over it, or it could be that I have had time to reflect how I am using it and what I am using it for.
Types of users that I have encountered include the ones who only follow celebrities, the ones who don’t follow back unless your in the top twitterati group, those that follow a mass amount of users, then unfollow and repeat in order to boost numbers of followers to ridiculous amounts. To name a few.
And then there is another group. The people who build working relationships that enable a meaningful two way communication. (Don’t get me wrong I also Tweet a lot of useless and simply goofy tweets, and love reading those too.)
The problem is, how do you become a part of that meaningful community. How to make useful links and contacts, and how to be valuable and sharing back to that community. There are numerous blog postings around lately, telling you, how to be a top twitter, how to get 10K followers, how to ‘correctly’ tweet, how to blah blah blah follow their lacklustre advice if you like. (more…)
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Ok ok so it’s apparently ‘mainstream’. The BBC has told us, so it must be. I think that may depend on your interpretation of mainstream. I interpret that as used across multiple disciplines, platforms and user groups. So mainstream Twitter, are the youth of today using your services, are the retired reading tweets on the hour every hour? Is it being used in places of work, in shops, in museums and in education? Do the users have no geological boundary’s, it is loved by many across all countries (heavy USA dominance for users at the moment).
I’m not so sure. The articles glorifying the ‘famous’ users will certainly help, keeping in mind that many of them are the agents of these stars, and it’s used just for promotions.
I work for a large college, and I talked about Twitter in some of my courses studying technology. From all of the students who signed up for the service (not many did) they all asked how can they use it because no one they knew was on it (i.e their friends were not using it). They do however have friends on MySpace (130 million users), Youtube, Facebook. When Facebook clocks up its 5th year and celebrates 150 million users and Youtube hits an all time high – online clips were watched more than four billion times by over 30 million people (according to internet monitor comScore). That sounds pretty mainstream. (more…)
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That was the day I joined Twitter. Joining Twitter and becoming ‘part of the community’ are two very very different things. I sent my first Tweet on 18th November 2008 at 18:16:06
I joined not really knowing why I was joining, and not knowing what the purpose was. One changed Gravatar and some 401 updates later I have realised that these are the top ten things that have surprised me.
1 – The number of Twitter related websites.
This seems to grow continually as people develop new ideas and ways to use the service. You can:
In fact this site lists 100 of these variations so check them out when you get a chance.
2 – Meeting all types of people.
I am surprised by the mix of people, from all backgrounds, locations, companies, positions within companies, unemployed, students, 14 year old tech geeks, interests, religious, political, social, famous, infamous, average joe (criminal & saintly?), Windows users, Linux lovers, Mac supporters, BumpTop testers… all mixed within this one constraint, 140 characters.
It thrills me that I can add people from my birth town, or my local town, or someone I respect for technology innovation, or have read their books. That completely inspires and awes me every second that I see new tweets posted.
3 – It’s refreshing to be me.
This may read a little strange. I have played online games for years, I would maybe even admit to a slight addiction at one point, (but you didn’t read that here). (more…)
Signing up for a new service or social networking site can have its own set of rules. It can sometimes be difficult for people to join in and feel part of the community. There are new terms to use, and etiquette to be familiar with. I have discussed Twitter with my students, and the ones who have decided to give it a try do at first find it a bit baffling (like I did). Some of them wondered what the point was if their friends were not on it.
This leads me to what I think is one of the best descriptions / demonstrations of Twitter I have seen. This short video takes you through the basics.
Developer: Naan Studio (also makers of Twitterfox the plugin for Firefox)
Price:FREE
Version Reviewed: 1.4
iPhone integration rating 5/5
User Interface rating 5/5
Reuse / Replay value 5/5
TwitterFon is a simple, clean, easy to use, and super fast Twitter client for your iPhone and iPod Touch.
A week has passed and I have been using TwitterFon exclusively. Unfortunately this statement is not true (well not to start with). I found myself throughout the start of the week, reverting to a different application on several occasions. However – Something happened mid-week. (more…)
Well, I decided to jump in at the deep end after reading a tweet sent from @loic (see below the video for a full write up)
I’m not going to make excuses about the poor sound quality, or the colour balance on the video, just I wanted to give it a try and I wanted it to be exactly what I was thinking about it at the time. So it isn’t edited (I know, you can tell!)
Anyway – I’ll let you watch, it would be great to have some feedback- though comments like – don’t give up your day job won’t necessarily be constructive :p
[Part transcript: I was going to do a review of an iPhone application because I’m obsessed with those at the moment. But actually I thought I would ask, does anyone think that video blogging or that kind of video conversation – do you think that video posts are the way forward? (more…)
to find *The Ultimate*Twitter Client, the breakdown…
THE BACKGROUND what the heck is Twitter?
Twitter, founded by Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams was launched in July 2006. It is a social networking (and micro-blogging service) that allows users to post latest updates. Each update (or Tweet as its termed) is limited by 140 characters and can be posted these ways: web form, programs specifically designed to interact with Twitter, text message, or instant message. Some interesting user number information can be found at TechCrunch. Additionally this recent post found on Digg stated that “Micro-blogging service Twitter is gaining 5,000 to 10,000 new accounts a day and most of its users have joined this year (2008).” The full story on Psysorg can be read HERE.
THE WHY
When talking with friends and getting current information through Twitter, I find myself using several programs because they seem to have one or two features that I like. This is annoying. I want one application that meets all the requirements. Is this really to much to ask? I decided to make a list of things that I would like in the program, and then I am going to go through the list & map it out against what the program does.
THE WHAT
I will use each program for one week, during that week it will have the epic honour of going onto my Phone bar (see picture).
During that week I will not be using any other application. After that week I am going to post my review and opinions and then test the next application. Currently all the applications that I have planned to test are FREE from iTunes store.
There is only one paid for application, but this may change as my challenge continues. (I am really hoping one already installed will do the trick!) (more…)
Lots of excitement has started in the Twitter community. Around 10pm or so (EST) on January 3rd messages began to surface about a bad link. This takes you to a site that asks you for your password. Once it has the information it sends the tweet to your followers, asking them to check out the site too. Messages of Re-Tweets warning you to not click the link has now also spread through the community and people are discussing the origins of this Trojan. (more…)
This story from CNET news is basically the CEO from Twiter saying that there will be opportunities to make money from the micro blogging application but that he cannot yet mention any specifics for it. Might be a good time to think of ways it can be applied and used… eithor way it seems to still be gaining momentium in comparison to other similar sites, and the aquired and closed Pwonce will probally lead to those users also joining. Heck, Stephen Fry has his own twitter feed that he updates more than me - so no excuses!
This is bad news, even more things to get addicted to! Friend (thanks Joe) just sent me this link after calling me old-fashioned! Anyway I can see why once I checked out the great link. This is just another distraction, but amazing use of technology and people updating information. [EDIT - there was like 5 spelling errors on the page I was so excited when I typed it! haha]
