Comments on: Twitter is Messy

By: Use Twitter to enhance your Personal Learning Network (PLN) | Jen e-blogger

Use Twitter to enhance your Personal Learning Network (PLN) | Jen e-blogger — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:36:04 +0000

[...] Great article about Twitter: Twitter is messy [...]

By: simplekaywa - Twitterhandbuch für Lehrpersonen

simplekaywa - Twitterhandbuch für Lehrpersonen — Thu, 28 May 2009 13:30:46 +0000

[...] 3 Ratschläge von Chris Betcher, eines Pädagogen von Sydney. 1.: Twitter nicht bewerten vor dem Folgen von 40-50 Leuten über 6 Monate. 2.: Bei der Auswahl die Biografie ansehen, eine Weile einlesen, nicht zu enge Auswahl treffen (z.B. nur Lehrpersonen). 3.: Daran denken, was man/frau an wen/alle Leute schreibt. Differenzieren. Letzter Rat: mit einem Twitter-Client die Tweets organisieren. Zum Schluss: an die manchmal grosse Wichtigkeit scheinbar unwichtiger Nachrichten denken (Netzwerk). Quelle: Twitter is messy. [...]

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:18:21 +0000

Excellent article, Chris!

Very sceptical myself until one morning, for the first time ever, my website went down, and so did the provider’s support site. I wondered what to do for a moment and then opened a search in Tweetdeck for tweets containing the provider’s name. Immediately, I found out what was wrong, when it would be fixed, what kinds of problems it was causing other people – just from filtering the chatter in the Tweet-o-verse. Nice!

I used it to follow the IATEFL conference when I wasn’t there – that proved to be really useful too. So now I run Tweetdeck with several searches permanently open to look for stuff that might interest me and find users worth following.

Oddly enough, what it reminds me of is radio – using the searches to tune into interesting ‘programmes’ from all that chatter out in the ether…

By: David Hopkins

David Hopkins — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 16:00:06 +0000

Thanks for your comment on my post Chris. The only quote I’ve attributed to you is from your ‘and finally’ section, but understand your comments.

All the best,
David

By: Lee Kolbert

Lee Kolbert — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 20:49:07 +0000

Chris,
Great post! Good advice for all.

@Melissa,
It’s important to know that although you can delete your own tweets, some 3rd party clients do not delete those tweets. All the more reason to tweet with caution.

By: Twitter and You Shall Receive « mortempo

Twitter and You Shall Receive « mortempo — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 22:07:04 +0000

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By: Learner Bytes » Blog Archive » to tweet or not to tweet, and if I do, therefore I am & you know…

Sun, 01 Mar 2009 11:53:25 +0000

[...] blog posts regarding Twitter that I’ve read recently include Chris Betcher’s ‘Twitter is messy’, and Jenny Wood’s, ‘a Twitter reality check’, and there’s a [...]

By: Allison Miller

Allison Miller — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:30:06 +0000

Hey Chris – I’ve been using Twitter for quite some time now (18 mths) and of late I’ve been following a lot of ’social media’ people and I have had the feeling that the Twitter conversations have been ‘diluted’.

So after reading this post, I have found some ‘gems’ to use Twitter better – thanks, Allison

http://twitter.com/theother66

By: murcha

murcha — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 10:24:34 +0000

Twitter has been a support group to me in time of need, has shared advice when required, given tips, new urls to read and web2.0 tools to try. I have so many valuable contacts in my personal learning network. Whilst in Qatar at the flatclassroom conference, I needed to work with a group to find some backchannel sites and uses of the backchannel in education, within 15 mins and then present to the audience. So, I quickly put out a tweet and withing minutes had 10 replies to my question. Tomorrow I am going to now use a backchannel, chatzy, in my accounting class. This has been inspired through my twitter network (which one could argue is a type of backchannel)

By: Life is not a race to be first finished » Blog Archive » PhotoPeach Photo Slideshows

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 09:09:56 +0000

[...] came across PhotoPeach via a comment on Chris Betcher’s blog about using Twitter and thought that I would give it a try and I liked it. PhotoPeach is a mash up [...]