Do you have a twitter account?

[Or-Tal Kiriati]

If so - please list your twitter in reply here.
If you are still unfamiliar with twitter - please visit this link: http://www.commoncraft.com/twitter
That's "Twitter in Plain English".

[Kathryn L. Keene]

I think my "twitter' is KLKMAKLPK...Kathy Keene

[Britt Gow]

Hi Or_tal,
My Twitter username is "brittgow" - I am interested in science and maths for middle school students and web 2.0 technologies in (an outside) the classroom.

[Connie Weber]

connieweber is my twitter name. just getting into it.

[Nathan Lowell]

nlowell - but i'm a binge tweeter.

[Kevin H.]

I am dogtrax on twitter

Kevin

[Or-Tal Kiriati]

Hey,
I asked and should have started with it - my twitter is lemino. But there is also one more twitter account, less active, kids4kids !

[Connie Weber]

Hi Or-Tal,

Enjoying the States? Hope your travels are going wonderfully.

Here are two more references on Twitter, gained through tweets...

Steve Hargadon recommends this article in the NYTimes:
"Putting Twitter's World to Use"

and from Liz Davis:
"Twitter Handbook for Teachers"

[Connie Weber]

The article from the Times that Steve Hargadon tweeted about is so good I'm putting a part of it up here. This was the turning point for me, reading this:

"Putting Twitter’s World to Use
By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER

SAN FRANCISCO — The first reaction many people have to Twitter is befuddlement. Why would they want to read short messages about what someone ate for breakfast?

It’s a reasonable question. Twitter unleashes the diarist in its 14 million users, who visited its site 99 million times last month to read posts tapped out with cellphones and computers.

Individually, many of those 140-character “tweets” seem inane.

But taken collectively, the stream of messages can turn Twitter into a surprisingly useful tool for solving problems and providing insights into the digital mood. By tapping into the world’s collective brain, researchers of all kinds have found that if they make the effort to dig through the mundane comments, the live conversations offer an early glimpse into public sentiment — and even help them shape it.

Companies like Starbucks, Whole Foods and Dell can see what their customers are thinking as they use a product, and the companies can adapt their marketing accordingly. Last week in Moldova, protesters used Twitter as a rallying tool while outsiders peered at their tweets to help them understand what was happening in that little-known country.

And over the weekend, Amazon.com learned how important it was to respond to the Twitter audience. After one author noticed that Amazon had reclassified books with gay and lesbian themes as “adult” and removed them from the main search and sales rankings, a protest broke out on blogs and Twitter. The company felt compelled to respond despite the Easter holiday, initially saying the problem was due to a “glitch in our system” but later blaming a “ham-fisted cataloging error” that affected more than 57,000 books dealing with health and sex.

Soon, machines could twitter as much as people. Corey Menscher, a graduate student at New York University, developed the Kickbee, an elastic band with vibration sensors that his pregnant wife wore to alert Twitter each time the baby kicked: “I kicked Mommy at 08:52 PM on Fri, Jan 2!” Mr. Menscher is now considering selling the product.

Pairing sensors with Twitter leads some to think Twitter could be used to send home security alerts or tell doctors when a patient’s blood sugar or heart rate climbs too high. In the aggregate, such real-time data streams could aid medical researchers..."

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It's like being connected to a pulse. You choose the veins.

[scott smith]

Hi Or-Tal

my Twitter is stampergr

[James Zimmerman]

jimzimlfc - my twitter account. I find it useful for somethings (breaking news, counterculture, NYC goings on, quick thoughts, immediacy, insights, quick feedback) - not so much on other things...

[Connie Weber]

another twitter article:

Twitter is the new recess. Got this in a tweet from Scott McLeod.

[Steve O'Connor]

steveoc. I've been tweeting since Nov 07, but it took me awhile to get it.

Focus on Open Source, educational technology, and forays into Buddhism (although I am generally extremely private about my belief system).