Twitter 101, an article by Christian Tynan-Wood (Family Circle Jan. 2010), gives us a basic look at the Twitter (actually, it's twitter with a small case "t") phenomenon. To start at the beginning, twitter is a "free service that shoots your personal musings to the Internet in 140-character bursts." She suggests that teachers could use a Twitter-feed to "communicate info about homework, field trips, and classroom events." This, of course, "as long as her audience signs up to follow her posts." Followers (of your tweet) can be limited by going to the "account" setting and clicking on the protect button. You will have to approve anyone who asks to follow, and your tweets go only to them. Otherwise, anyone can follow you in the "live stream of mutterings" that anyone can access at twitter.com.
There are some neat features on twitter: a news feature allows you to get headlines, weather warnings, and alerts from the White House. Or you can just stick with the random thoughts from family and friends. For fun, you can follow the celebrities, the NFL draft, or other monumentally important happenings. So if you don't have time to read a newspaper or sit down and chat with someone (sigh..) you can always check twitter to catch up on the latest gossip, I mean news.
And if you find you can't live without the constant stream of information, try twitter deck. But that's a whole 'nother post.
Here's a link to twitter.
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