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Contents

  1. 1 Introducing Twitter
  2. 2 Visualise your tweets
  3. 3 How do you set-up & use Twitter?
  4. 4 How can Twitter be used to enhance education?
  5. 5 Do more with Twitter

Introducing Twitter

Twitter is a microblogging platform that enables a real-time interaction between users, using different devices, technologies and applications.

Watch the videos below to learn more:


"A quick and plain English intro the micro-blogging service Twitter."



"How Twitter Search creates new opportunities for business feedback, tracking news in real time and discovering trends."

Visualise your tweets

One of the nice things you can do with Twitter is display Tweets about a certain topic that are being made in 'real time'.  Many conferences are now using sites such as visibletweets.com to project peoples messages about the conference in question onto large displays so that audience members/delegates can see them.


Below you'll see an example of visible tweets used to display all the messages that my e-learning team* have posted:


Visible Tweets let you search for and display Tweets containing specific words in real time, the example above is displaying all Tweets containing the word "shsstells".

>> Click here to follow my e-learning team on Twitter* <<

* Please note that this site is not affiliated with or endorsed by my employers in any way, but if you want to see what we are up to re: e-learning and ILT then feel free to follow us!

How do you set-up & use Twitter?


The link below will take you to a PDF guide in setting up and using Twitter:

Alternatively you can work your way through Jane Hart's excellent online guide to Twitter via the link below:


Finally, for a comprehensive guide to all things Twitter I highly recommend you visit Mashable's Twitter Guide Book.

How can Twitter be used to enhance education?

The following links will take you to external web sites that examine the effectiveness of Twitter and other similar platforms in education and provide server examples that you may find useful to try out with your own students:

Do more with Twitter

Once you have a twitter account you may wish to look at these links, they will take you to sites that expand the functionality of the system:
  • Top 7 Twitter Tutorials - A collection of videos & links put together by Ben Parr that show you how to get the most out of Twitter.

  • Twitter Apps - A nice collection of free web applications that you can use to enhance your Twitter experience.

  • TwitCam - This free service lets you broadcast live streaming video, all you need is a webcam and a Twitter account.

  • Top 5 ways to share videos with Twitter - Jennifer Van Grove outlines five ways in which you share online video via Twitter.

  • TwitDoc - Share files easily via Twitter.

  • Polleverywhere - Conduct real time polls with your class which they can respond to by mobile phone text message or Twitter - the results are then shown live in a web browser or as part of your powerpoint slide.

  • Tiny Paste - Twitter limits messages to a maximum of 140 characters but you can work around this using Tiny Paste.   On this site you can type your lengthy message into a box, click submit and you'll get a short link like tinypaste.com/471ca. Paste this in your Twitter feed (or anywhere else) and anyone who clicks it will read your full comments.

  • Twuffer - Twuffer allows the Twitter user to compose a list of future messages, and schedule their release.


  • Twitter Toolbox - 60 tools for getting the most out of Twitter.