Twitter is an internet social networking site that keeps people updated on everything that is going on in the news or peoples' lives. Twitter can be used to see what friends are doing, see how your favorite sport teams are doing, and check on the latest news developments. Since Twitter's creation in 2006, the company has seen an influx in membership. There are currently over 190 million users of Twitter in the world. What makes Twitter so great is that it's nice and simple, it's not identical to Facebook, which contains profiles with walls, pictures, and a lot of personal stuff. All Twitter is, is just a quick 140 character maximum status update. To get updates on someone or something you're interested in, all you do is follow the person.
With the recent earthquake in Japan, Twitter can come in handy giving people and news networks the ability to update on what's going without having to write a long article on CNN or Fox or the like. With Twitter growing and becoming more and more socially acceptable, it has found its way into schools, colleges, and universities. High Schools, like our own school and many other prep schools, along with colleges and universities use Twitter to give updates on team scores, Heads' Holidays, news on students and faculty, and news to keep everyone updated. As of late Twitter has also found its self being used in the classroom. At Purdue University, a professor is now using Twitter during his lectures, the article can be found here. The students are using Twitter to ask questions, vote for what questions they would like to be asked, answer questions, and reply to answers. Even though Twitter is useful and I have gotten into it, I feel as though using it in the classroom might be bad, you're on the internet and it's really easy to get distracted and I feel as though that would be happening a lot. Twitter is fine when it comes to the news, but bringing it into the classroom seems like a bad idea. (Posted by Sean and Paul)
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