About Twitter
As the Twitter.com website puts it, “twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick..” Its original purpose is for people to “update”: What are you doing?. You do these by using your mobile phone, email, desktop application, or going to Twiter.com. The limitation now is that you can type only 140 words per twitter or post. You generally do not send pictures and/or video clips along with your text.
My use of twitter for now is limited to microblogging, or publishing 140 words at a time, regardless social networking and communication among friends, etc. The way I do it might interest you so I summarize down into this writing. I am talking one simple and the “easiest” way (for now, March 15, 2008) to update your Twitter account. You will see why.
1. Using Flock as your browser (Firefox might work but I love Flock more).
2. Use the Flock add-on for Twitter. This add on puts a tiny icon at the right end of your browser’s address bar. Whatever shown in the address bar will be posted to your Twitter account if this tiny icon is clicked, purposely or accidently.
3. When I am browsing websites and reading interesting things, I can highlight a sentence or so that I like to keep, copy the text by right click the mouse, and paste it to the address bar. (Now, this is inconvenient. Why don’t just highlighting and twittering by inserting the posting function into right click?)
4. Go to the tiny icon and click on it. The text is twittered!
Because whatever in the address bar can be posted to your twitter, this actually also can be used as a way to save “bookmarks” or, better, share bookmarks. In this sense, social bookmark web application should be using twitter more.
The image shows a screenshot of a webpage of mine. Twitter widget is shown on the right sidebar. So it’s like you can post your headline news that has interested you and bookmarks also. Now, the remaining question is Post for what? Why? What purpose? Ok, I am not going to give a full answer. For now, it is springbreak, right?
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I want to mention about the limitations, from my point of view, the Twitter has, or maybe just a wishlist.
This is somehow another problem. In order to use Twitter by mobile phone one has to pay for text message service. In order to fully take the advantage of Web2.0 one might need wireless access to internet for his/her cell phone. So cost is a problem for implementing Twitter facilitated teaching.
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