Twitter is one of the latest forms of communication, mainly used by teens and college students. Twitter like sending a message to a whole list of your "followers." When you send a tweet, you can also specify who that message is directed to. Twitter is a great way to stay involved in other people's lives. Twitter is also starting to be used in college classrooms. It is hard to believe, but many professors have gone to Twitter to help them engage students in large lecture classes. There are 99% of college students that have cell phones, and of that percentage, mostly all of them use text messaging. If you are capable of sending text messages, you are capable of texting Twitter. Some professors realize that in large lectures people do not like to talk out loud in front of the class. If the professor uses Twitter they can get messages sent during class. Messages can be sent to Twitter from cell phones or from twitter.com. This can be very helpful and interactive for the professor and students. There are probably a few down falls to using Twitter in the classroom, but I find it could be very successful.
If you aren't signed up to Twitter, here is a link to get started:http://www.twitter.com
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