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Teachers Are Helping Students Learn with the Help of Twitter

May 23, 2011

Twitter has become an important forum for teachers.

Teachers are bringing the real-time communication power of Twitter into the classroom to help students learn. It’s great for helping teachers learn as well. Twitter has simply become one of the best places for teachers to collaborate, share solutions to common classroom problems, and discuss education policy. In fact, it might just be the best forum teachers have ever had.

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Analysis, Internet, Latest News, Twitter

Twitters’ .05% Elite Users Generate Half of All Twitter Posts

March 29, 2011

20,000 of Twitters 200 million users generate 50% of tweets.

Cornell University and Yahoo! Research have released a ten-page research report that offers insight into how content is being created, consumed, and shared by different groups of users on Twitter.

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Erase Last Night’s Indiscretions From Facebook & Twitter

March 25, 2011

It’s nearly the weekend, which means that it’s nearly time to make bad decisions, likely with phone in hand. While the tech world can’t stop you from shamelessly making out with that girl in that dive bar, it can wipe away all graphic mentions of how you did so from your Twitter stream.

Enter Last Night Never Happened, a rather well-made novelty iPhone/iPad/iPod touch app from22seeds. The app’s purpose? It deletes posts, photos, comments, tweets and direct messages from your Facebook and Twitter accounts. Unfortunately, you can’t delete as much from Facebook as you might like — merely comments and photos…

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