Twitter


 * Twitter **

Twitter is an INVALUABLE tool for connecting with other educators and experts around the country and even the world.

"**[|Twitter] is a social networking and microblogging service that allows you answer the question, //"What are you doing?"// by sending short text messages 140 characters in length, called "tweets", to your friends, or "followers."** - http://tweeternet.com/

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Anyone can tweet. How can you tweet and connect to other educators?

The Educator's Guide to Twitter


 * Hashtags **
 * Definition:** The # symbol, called a hashtag, is used to mark keywords or topics in a Tweet. It was created organically by Twitter users as a way to categorize messages.

Hashtags: helping you find interesting Tweets

 * People use the hashtag symbol **#** before relevant keywords in their Tweet to categorize those Tweets to show more easily in Twitter Search.
 * Clicking on a hashtagged word in any message shows you all other Tweets in that category.
 * Hashtags can occur anywhere in the Tweet.
 * Hashtagged words that become very popular are often Trending Topics.

//http://support.twitter.com/entries/49309-what-are-hashtags-symbols//

__**Popular Education Hashtags**__
 * 1) edchat
 * 2) edtech
 * 3) edreform
 * 4) PATeach
 * 5) web20chat

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__**Educational Tweets to Follow**__ Nancy Caramanico - ncara Will Richardson - willrich45 Sheryl Nussbaum Beach - snbeach Richard Byrne -rmbyrne Kelly Tenkely - ktenkely Dianne Krause - diannekrause Tom Barrett - tombarrett Steven Anderson - web20classroom David Warlick - dwarlick Education Week - educationweek