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Get Twitter by SMS on O2

First Twitter turned off SMS notification in the UK…

Then they turned it back on for Vodafone subscribers in the UK.

Now they have turned it on for O2 subscribers too.

Full, two-way interaction with Twitter over SMS is now available for everyone who uses O2, the largest mobile operator in the UK. 

Easy to set up

To Twitter over SMS with your iPhone or any other mobile, head over to your account settings and activate your device. The Twitter shortcode in the UK is 86444 if you want to save it in your address book. 

Not sure impact on me as the iPhone and Twitterific makes it very easy to keep in touch with Twitter. However if you have a “standard” phone, or a phone without a data contract for the web, then this does make sense and will be useful.

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Are you on Twitter?

Reminded last week how much people liked my Twitter video from Handheld Learning 2008.

Thinking about what I can do for this year’s conference.

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Does Skippy have a Twitter account?

Strewth Bruce, looks like Skippy the Kangaroo is going to need to get a Twitter account.

Australia is to use social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter to give people early warning of bushfires.

Residents of towns in Victoria state have said they had little or no warning of the devastating blazes that killed 173 people in February.

Read more on BBC News.

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Fifty Ways to Use Twitter in the Classroom

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Fifty ways in which Twitter can be used to enhance and enrich learning in the classroom.

Some examples from the article…

5. Brainstorm. The ability to share ideas as the occur any time and any where creates an excellent opportunity for brainstorming on class topics.

16. Follow mentors. If professors or other key figures in your field of study are on Twitter, follow them to keep up with their research and activities.

So is Twitter just hype?

Research from people (who don’t use Twitter) seem to think so.

Micro-blogging service Twitter remains the preserve of a few, despite the hype surrounding it, according to research.

Just 10% of Twitter users generate more than 90% of the content, a Harvard study of 300,000 users found.

Anyone who reads my e-Learning Stuff blog will know that I believe that Twitter is all about the coffee and the conversation. Yes there is hype, but for my e-learning community of practice it is working really well as a collaboration and conversational tool.

Steve Wheeler over on Learning with E’s has similar thoughts about the Harvard study.

No, I’m not convinced that this study (which is a survey of 300,000 users) is actually saying anything useful or positive. Some people don’t get Twitter and others only get it partially and use it in a limited manner. Potentially, Twitter is one of the most powerful social networking tools ever to have emerged from the so-called Web 2.0 – and I think it will stand the test of time. There is a large and growing body of tools that support Twitter, and already a vast amount of evidence to show that Twitter can be used inventively as a teaching and learning tool. It seems to me that from their tone, the Harvard researchers can be numbered amongst those people who simply ‘don’t get’ Twitter.

Though having suffered recently from some Twitter problems, I hope that Twitter will sort them out so that Twitter can survive the hype and continue to be a useful tool.

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Twitter on the front line

From BBC News

There may have been few things that protesters, politicians and activists share, but during the G20 meeting, they were united by their use of Twitter.

The micro-blogging service was heavily used by all those involved with the meeting, be they in the debating chamber, quizzing politicians after briefings, or protesting beyond the police cordon.

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