{"id":599,"date":"2009-09-17T09:20:51","date_gmt":"2009-09-17T09:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eat.scm.tees.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=599"},"modified":"2017-01-26T11:07:01","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T11:07:01","slug":"twitter-what-is-it-can-i-use-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/2009\/09\/17\/twitter-what-is-it-can-i-use-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter – what is it, can I use it?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TwitterLots of chatter on the t\u2019interweb around the world is carried via Twitter<\/em>. It\u2019s a “micro-blogging tool”, which might not make any sense to you either! Basically, it\u2019s sending very short updates from your computer, the web or your phone to share info, news or feelings with other people, privately or publicly.<\/p>\n

The reason we\u2019re telling you? We think you can find a use for it! E@T<\/a> use twitter to keep a short news feed available in Blackboard, on the web and to anyone who subscribes to our feed (see just over to the right of this page). The University<\/a> push out short updates too. Twitter is becoming increasingly common at conferences, providing a live ‘backchannel\u2019 which comments on, asks questions and shares knowledge and discussion amongst attendees before, during and after the event. Could you see this happening in lectures?<\/p>\n

Our good friend Andy Ramsden who visited for a very successful E@T Lunch on blogs and podcasting a couple of years ago has pulled some info together at the University of Bath which is a good overview<\/a> of using twitter, and Alex Moseley at Leicester University sums up some good uses here<\/a> too.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a great info video about Twitter which also appears on the Twitter help page<\/a> (lots of basic explanations of the ‘jargon\u2019 you pick up on the help page too)<\/p>\n

\nHow To Use Twitter<\/a> on Howcast<\/a><\/div>\n

Here\u2019s a less techie view of how Twitter works:<\/p>\n

Twitter in Plain English<\/a> from leelefever<\/a> on Vimeo<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Or why don\u2019t you come along to the workshop that will run in CLQE on Monday 2nd November, in M701B? There are lots of uses for Twitter, so if you\u2019re interested in capturing the student experience on your course, encouraging students to share feelings\/frustrations\/successes whilst on placement or brave enough to get them to maintain a feedback stream on your module \ud83d\ude15 , sign up to clqe-workshops<\/a> and come along! If you do already Twitter (and we know plenty of people around campus do!) and have some ideas for using it from the start of term, get in touch straight away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lots of chatter on the t\u2019interweb around the world is carried via Twitter. It\u2019s a “micro-blogging tool”, which might not make any sense to you either! Basically, it\u2019s sending very short updates from your computer, the web or your phone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":10727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[30],"yoast_head":"\nTwitter - what is it, can I use it? - LTE Online<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/2009\/09\/17\/twitter-what-is-it-can-i-use-it\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Twitter - what is it, can I use it? - LTE Online\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lots of chatter on the t\u2019interweb around the world is carried via Twitter. It\u2019s a “micro-blogging tool”, which might not make any sense to you either! Basically, it\u2019s sending very short updates from your computer, the web or your phone\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/2009\/09\/17\/twitter-what-is-it-can-i-use-it\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"LTE Online\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2009-09-17T09:20:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2017-01-26T11:07:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/files\/2021\/02\/LTESLAR1-social-noresize.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Richard\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@richard_glover\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@TeesUniSLAR\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Richard\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/2009\/09\/17\/twitter-what-is-it-can-i-use-it\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/2009\/09\/17\/twitter-what-is-it-can-i-use-it\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Richard\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/#\/schema\/person\/52842b9104e314c6f7dee74b41101253\"},\"headline\":\"Twitter – what is it, can I use it?\",\"datePublished\":\"2009-09-17T09:20:51+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-01-26T11:07:01+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/2009\/09\/17\/twitter-what-is-it-can-i-use-it\/\"},\"wordCount\":361,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/2009\/09\/17\/twitter-what-is-it-can-i-use-it\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/files\/2021\/02\/LTESLAR1-social-noresize.png\",\"keywords\":[\"twitter\"],\"articleSection\":[\"LTE Blog\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/2009\/09\/17\/twitter-what-is-it-can-i-use-it\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/2009\/09\/17\/twitter-what-is-it-can-i-use-it\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/2009\/09\/17\/twitter-what-is-it-can-i-use-it\/\",\"name\":\"Twitter - what is it, can I use it? - LTE Online\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/2009\/09\/17\/twitter-what-is-it-can-i-use-it\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/2009\/09\/17\/twitter-what-is-it-can-i-use-it\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/files\/2021\/02\/LTESLAR1-social-noresize.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2009-09-17T09:20:51+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-01-26T11:07:01+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/2009\/09\/17\/twitter-what-is-it-can-i-use-it\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/2009\/09\/17\/twitter-what-is-it-can-i-use-it\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/2009\/09\/17\/twitter-what-is-it-can-i-use-it\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/files\/2021\/02\/LTESLAR1-social-noresize.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/files\/2021\/02\/LTESLAR1-social-noresize.png\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":630,\"caption\":\"LTE Online\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/2009\/09\/17\/twitter-what-is-it-can-i-use-it\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Twitter – what is it, can I use it?\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/\",\"name\":\"LTE Online\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/#organization\",\"name\":\"LTE Online\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/files\/2017\/01\/LTE-Online_CMYK_Square.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/files\/2017\/01\/LTE-Online_CMYK_Square.jpg\",\"width\":801,\"height\":801,\"caption\":\"LTE Online\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/x.com\/TeesUniSLAR\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/#\/schema\/person\/52842b9104e314c6f7dee74b41101253\",\"name\":\"Richard\",\"description\":\"Geek, cyclist, bad photographer & vegetarian. I cook, talk about social media, mobile tech & fiddle with WordPress\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/richardglover1982\/\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/richard_glover\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/author\/u0024642\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Twitter - what is it, can I use it? - LTE Online","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/2009\/09\/17\/twitter-what-is-it-can-i-use-it\/","og_locale":"en_GB","og_type":"article","og_title":"Twitter - what is it, can I use it? - LTE Online","og_description":"Lots of chatter on the t\u2019interweb around the world is carried via Twitter. It\u2019s a “micro-blogging tool”, which might not make any sense to you either! Basically, it\u2019s sending very short updates from your computer, the web or your phone","og_url":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/2009\/09\/17\/twitter-what-is-it-can-i-use-it\/","og_site_name":"LTE Online","article_published_time":"2009-09-17T09:20:51+00:00","article_modified_time":"2017-01-26T11:07:01+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1200,"height":630,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/files\/2021\/02\/LTESLAR1-social-noresize.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"Richard","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@richard_glover","twitter_site":"@TeesUniSLAR","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Richard","Estimated reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/2009\/09\/17\/twitter-what-is-it-can-i-use-it\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/2009\/09\/17\/twitter-what-is-it-can-i-use-it\/"},"author":{"name":"Richard","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/#\/schema\/person\/52842b9104e314c6f7dee74b41101253"},"headline":"Twitter – what is it, can I use it?","datePublished":"2009-09-17T09:20:51+00:00","dateModified":"2017-01-26T11:07:01+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/2009\/09\/17\/twitter-what-is-it-can-i-use-it\/"},"wordCount":361,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/2009\/09\/17\/twitter-what-is-it-can-i-use-it\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/files\/2021\/02\/LTESLAR1-social-noresize.png","keywords":["twitter"],"articleSection":["LTE Blog"],"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/2009\/09\/17\/twitter-what-is-it-can-i-use-it\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/2009\/09\/17\/twitter-what-is-it-can-i-use-it\/","url":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/2009\/09\/17\/twitter-what-is-it-can-i-use-it\/","name":"Twitter - what is it, can I use it? - LTE Online","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/2009\/09\/17\/twitter-what-is-it-can-i-use-it\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/2009\/09\/17\/twitter-what-is-it-can-i-use-it\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/files\/2021\/02\/LTESLAR1-social-noresize.png","datePublished":"2009-09-17T09:20:51+00:00","dateModified":"2017-01-26T11:07:01+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/2009\/09\/17\/twitter-what-is-it-can-i-use-it\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/2009\/09\/17\/twitter-what-is-it-can-i-use-it\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/2009\/09\/17\/twitter-what-is-it-can-i-use-it\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/files\/2021\/02\/LTESLAR1-social-noresize.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/files\/2021\/02\/LTESLAR1-social-noresize.png","width":1200,"height":630,"caption":"LTE Online"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/2009\/09\/17\/twitter-what-is-it-can-i-use-it\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Twitter – what is it, can I use it?"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/#website","url":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/","name":"LTE Online","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/#organization","name":"LTE Online","url":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/files\/2017\/01\/LTE-Online_CMYK_Square.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/files\/2017\/01\/LTE-Online_CMYK_Square.jpg","width":801,"height":801,"caption":"LTE Online"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/x.com\/TeesUniSLAR"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/#\/schema\/person\/52842b9104e314c6f7dee74b41101253","name":"Richard","description":"Geek, cyclist, bad photographer & vegetarian. I cook, talk about social media, mobile tech & fiddle with WordPress","sameAs":["https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/richardglover1982\/","https:\/\/x.com\/richard_glover"],"url":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/author\/u0024642\/"}]}},"views":3254,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/files\/2021\/02\/LTESLAR1-social-noresize.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/lteonline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}