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Can Twitter Teach our Kids Math? by Doyle

Well at this stage twitter is becoming mainstream. We have to accept twitter is probably going to be here to stay. I posed the question “Can Twitter Teach our Kids Math?” which is a bit of a stretch but I believe it can definitely help.

Twitter to the uninitiated is a simple SMS-like messaging service that allows people to connect and follow the messages posted by people and companys and in turn post (or Tweet) their own status. It is used in a few different ways but mainly by people who just want to keep in touch with people and organisations.

Sounds simple and it really is that simple there is a little bit more to it but basically not much more. But let’s see if we can come up with a scenario where twitter could be used in an educational situation. Imagine if all the students “followed” the teacher on twitter and could get updates and homework tips and results and personal mentoring all on twitter, it’d be a bit cool right? Imagine too if the parents could also follow the school and get updates on school closures and events and their kids progress, again cool right? This would be a super easy way to stay up-to date with what is happening in school and best of all it’s free to everyone concerned. Not particularly innovative just quick and easy movement of information.

Twitter could be great as a communications service in school as described above but it still doesn’t teach our kids. Well we could also offer anonymous free tutor help. I’m actually surprised a service like this doesn’t already exist (well I can’t find one) that allows a person tweet a specific problem to a service and get back an instant-ish response, not sure how the business model would work but hey twitter hasn’t figured one out yet either. Or how about a twitter service where people can post up homework help and advice again surprised the book publishers haven’t cottoned on to this one yet either.

Everyone knows that education is delivered and received by talking and reading well twitter is just a new method of communication and can easily then be included into the mix of education successfully and will succeed and fail in the exact same way as all communication does now. If it succeeds just remember where you heard it first, if it fails blame twitter

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Twitter Blog Posted by @jennadawn


Twitter trends began as a way to shed light on popular conversations. It’s interesting to know that one topic can now spread across the world in real-time, and Trends help us discover which of those topics are paramount on a global scale.

Twitter Blog Posted by @joshelman

Hi, I’m Josh and I work in the product team at Twitter. One of the areas I’m working on is helping new users get started so they know how to find and discover what interests them. Today we’re making the first of many changes here to help people ease into the twitterverse by finding and following accounts that interest them.

Two of the biggest challenges for new users have been finding accounts to follow that appeal to their interests, and finding their friends and colleagues who tweet. Over time, we’ve learned that by making suggestions of who to follow, we can help users get going more easily on Twitter. In our new design, we’re taking some steps to continue to improve this process. Once a user signs up and selects what they’re interested in, we show them some accounts that relate to that interest. Next, we help them find their friends and colleagues by checking their address books, and third we give them a chance to search for anyone we or they missed in this process.

We’ve found that the power of suggestion can be a great thing to help people get started, but it’s important that we suggest things relevant to them. We’ve created a number of algorithms to identify users across a variety of clusters who tweet actively and are engaged with their audiences. These new algorithms help us group these active users into lists of users by interests. Rather than suggesting a random set of 20 users for a new user to follow, now we let users browse into the areas they are interested in and choose who they want to follow from these lists. These lists will be refreshed frequently as the algorithms identify new users who should be suggested in these lists and some that are not as engaging to new users will be removed. We also have a set of “Staff Picks” that are manually selected by Twitter employees as some of our favorites. Given the recent tragedy in Haiti, we’ve also created a special “Staff Picks for Haiti” to get updated news and content on what’s happening there.

We’re really excited about this change, and look forward to continually improving the experience for all users to discover the best content and get the most out of Twitter.

Seesmic blog by their words.

twidiko.com

Twidiko is the easiest way to post videos to Twitter.
Twidiko allows you to share videos on Twitter. You can use your webcam and microphone and share your short videos and voice messages via Twitter easily just by using Twidiko. The user interface resembles Twitter a fair bit. Moreover, like in Twitter, you are limited by the length of a message you can record, it is 14 seconds only but it’s pretty enough for a well composed and informative message, which actually isn’t always needed to be full of seriousness.
We mentioned voice messages, and indeed, if you don’t have a webcam or just want not to be shown, you still can use Twidiko! Simply turn off your camera in the recording widget and you still have 14 seconds to say something to the world or to your friends.

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TwittaBling™

Offers fashion-forward Twitter™-inspired accessories such as necklaces, earrings, rings, wedding bands, and bracelets in sterling silver as well as 14k yellow and white gold. Users can customize their jewelry by choosing their Twitter handle, or a special trending topic, and by adding diamond or Swarovski crystals into their personalized fonts. In addition to choosing unique fonts and extra “bling”, customers can choose usernames in 3D or engraved formats, and customize chain length to suit their personal style.

The concept of TwittaBling was formed during a eureka moment of founders Shelley Shafran (@itzuvi) and Yoni Wiseman (@bydahway). The concept is simple: to create accessories for users of one of the world’s most popular online applications for offline use – with bling, of course

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Twtmuzik

Sharing music on Twitter is nothing new, but it sure is fun and easy. If you haven’t done it before, now you will have a chance to do it since Twtmuzik is a new resource that serves that very same function, and it does so admirably well.  What you must understand is that this platform is intended for sharing your own music. That is, it is a tool for self-promotion and not for the upload and distribution of commercial music that belongs to someone else, or that is being played on the radio.  In order to use Twtmuzik, all you need is having a Twitter account to sign in and upload your own music. Once a song has been uploaded, your followers will be notified via a tweet. This tweet will include a link to your new song, and other people can retweet it and start spreading it around the social web.

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TwinterFace

TwinterFace enables you to add sub users to your company’s twitter account. This way you can manage your brand perfectly!
In an easy interface you can manage multiple twitter accounts and switch between them.

TweeterClubs Lets You Track And Share Twitter Conversations

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Yesterday Was Twitter’s Highest Usage Day Ever. Today Will Be Bigger.

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With Tagnic, you can give and get +tags to and from anyone — anywhere you tweet.

The concept that lies at the heart of this site is as simple to apprehend as it is easy to be enjoyed. In essence, Tagnic is nothing but the result of applying tags to people when tweeting. Think of it as hashtags for people and you will be 100 % on target.  The way these tags are added is quite straightforward, as you simply add a plus sign “+” and the corresponding adjective at the end of the tweet. Upon doing so, the tag will be added to that person’s Tagnic profile. When certain tags end up being combined, the person will receive a badge, too. In a certain sense, it is all a big game. But it is a game that has a serious side to it, too, as the ones who take part of it will have a better chance to get to know each other as people.  Some of the featured badges include “Rockstar”, “Book Worm”, “Top Chef”… I guess you get the idea. Again, it is all really simple and easy to get to grips with, not to mention quite enjoyable. Those to whom a lot of followers mean nothing and who place the real value of social interaction on the actual depth of the relationships might end up flocking to it.

tvider.com

Forget about Twitter being a mere messaging platform. The truth couldn’t be more removed from that, what with the endless array of apps that expand on Twitter’s inherent capabilities. A case in point: the Tvider website.

Tvider is a multimedia sharing application called Tvider.
Tvider is a service that allows you to share images,videos and audio on twitter in real-time using your Mobile Phone/iPhone or your computer.
Tvider helps you say more with pictures and express yourself.
Tvider is free and it takes only few seconds to setup on most mobiles. Tvider application is available on iphone,Blackberry,J2ME,Symbian etc…

Tvider website
Tvider mobile applications
Tvider on twitter

newstwit.com

Newstwit is a real-time news aggregator and filter for Twitter. Sort, sift and filter real time information across hundreds of topics. Each of our channels is custom built and managed by an expert. Information overload meet information sanity.

Newstwit benefited tremendously from Twitter and the Twitter community. Newstwit is a small way to show our gratitude.

Newstwit was built by Liquid Ventures and Gatorworks.

Twitter opens up a huge opportunity for self-expression, and part of that is undoubtedly visual. While the Twitter interface gives you some basic backgrounds, let’s face it: they’re mostly pretty dull and it’s hard to make a unique splash when hundreds of thousands of other people are using the same elements. To get noticed not just for your tweets, but also for your style, try creating your own custom background. In this second of a two-part part series, I’ll discuss how to create a tiled (or patterned) background. In Part 1 yesterday, I talked about how to create top-left graphics that used image masks to blend seamlessly into the background. This time, I’ll explore tiled (or patterned) backgrounds. And although this tutorial is crafted for Twitter, you can use the pattern you create here just about anywhere, including your personal blog or your company Website.

Designing For Twitter

A simple, stylish pattern can add polish to your page, and people tend to associate you with the imagery you choose. Tiling a grainy picture of your cat across your page will probably not earn you many followers. A cute pattern of cartoony cats carries the same message—that you’re keen on kitties—without suggesting that you’re a hopeless novice.

Coming up with a killer pattern is your goal. Make your pattern moderately large (300-by-300 pixels or more) to help curb the obviousness of the repetition. Avoid gradients because they will not blend from tile to tile. And you’ll want to keep the color and contrast of your pattern in check; after all, people are there to read your tweets, not go blind.

Open Adobe Photoshop CS3 or CS4 and choose File -> New. Enter a width and height for your pattern; for this example, I’ll choose 400-by-400 at 72 pixels per inch. There is no requirement to construct a square pattern; if you think your concept will work better with a wide or tall pattern, enter a resolution like 600-by-300 or 200-by-800. (Twitter’s only requirement is that the overall image file size be less than 800k.) Click OK to continue.

Create a moderately sized pattern of at least 300-by-300 pixels or larger.

Locate the Layers palette (Window -> Layers) and keep it handy, as you’ll be using it often. The first task is to set the pattern background color. Choose Layer -> New Fill Layer -> Solid Color. Enter a name for the color layer (i.e., Background Color) and click OK. Now choose a color from the Color Picker and click OK; a new layer will then appear in the Layers palette.(Remember that you can change your background color at any time by double-clicking the color layer thumbnail.) >>>> Continue Reading here

370 Passwords You Shouldn’t (And Can’t) Use On Twitter

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There are 15,740 Social Media Experts on Twitter

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Kiwi

Is a Twitter client for Mac OS X. It enables you to view Twitter timelines on your Mac. Kiwi enables you to keep up to date with Twitter without the need for launching a whole web browser. Kiwi is designed to seem simple and straightforward for new Twitter users, but also supports multiple accounts, account combinations, rules, and themes for power users. Kiwi uses some of the latest technologies in Mac OS X 10.6, Snow Leopard and WebKit. Make sure that your Mac has 10.6 or later installed before using Kiwi.

Themes

Kiwi is themeable: it comes with nine themes and you can download more. Themes aren’t just skin deep either; they can change not just the look of Kiwi, but also what information is shown and how Kiwi behaves.

Rules

Define rules to hide content that you’d like to skip and highlight the content you don’t want to miss. Use simple searching and powerful regular expressions to see exactly the content you want.

Accounts

Kiwi works great with one account and smoothly navigates through many. Kiwi comes with a mini account window that lets you keep tabs on everything all at once.

Saved Searches

Twitter isn’t just about your friends anymore. With saved searches you can find out the latest news about the trending topics that are important to you.

Account Groups

Get organized, create mashups, and construct your own groups of users. Kiwi can merge many accounts into one timeline, or keep them separate, you decide.

Theme API

Want to create your own theme? It’s easy. Themes are built using simple HTML and CSS that’s easy to read. And since Kiwi uses WebKit, you can use all of the latest technologies like CSS 3 and transition animations.

Twitter earthquake tracker launched | Science & Technology | Sideways News

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Twitter Now Available in German

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