Technology Update 2.0

We first starting talking about Twitter back in September 2007 for the Microblogging Web Wednesday. Twitter keeps growing and is becoming something much more than just answering “what are you doing right now?”.

Combining the SMS (text messaging from your phone) with instant messaging (IM) as well as good old fashioned web form entry, browser plugins or even Adobe AIR application gives all those who tweet a myriad of options for adding their entries to their Twitter accounts.

As you build up your followers and followees, the network becomes a useful place for getting almost instant information, feedback and a sense of the zeitgeist of your peers on any given day.

With the open style of communication, there are now a lot of options for seeing the tweets from your friends and the Twitterverse at large. Here are some interesting options to explore.

Twitter Vision – a mashup of Google Maps and Twitter where you can watch the tweets come in from around the world.

also in 3D!

Quotably – makes it easier to follow conversations between folks in Twitter

Tweet Clouds – map the most commonly used words in your or another person’s tweets so you can see what is most important or frequently discussed. (Glad to see that woohoo was in my cloud!)

And, if you want to just track certain words that we humans use a log, visit Twistori – which beautifully tracks those important words:

• Love
• Hate
• Think
• Believe
• Feel

What are you doing with Twitter today?

BTW – if you are using Twitter, you can follow pstcc_ets to get status updates about the D2L server!

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