So, I have been experimenting with Twitter over the past week. I am still not quite sure what I think of it. I find it very interesting when it comes to news and entertainment. Some of my favorite news programs post recent stories or news flashes, so it is nice to keep up with important information. I have not yet experienced academic benefits.
The most challenging thing so far has been getting connected with people and finding people to follow. Currently, I am following 8 people and I have 1 follower (who is completely random?). I have tried searching a few of my friends' names, but I have been unsuccessful. Apparently you have to know there Twitter name or e-mail address. Like most people these days, I have no idea what my friends and family members' phone numbers are...much less their Twitter names or e-mail addresses (everything is in my iPhone!).
One situation it would be beneficial in is an internship course. If all classmates had different internships, they could Twitter about their daily experience as it happens. It would be so interesting to see people's experiences in that form.
I think your internship-tweeting idea sounds interesting.
ReplyDeleteI attended a marketing conference last year where the participants were encouraged to tweet throughout the conference and mark their tweets with the conference hashtag so that the organizers could get instantaneous feedback about what was happening. That was pretty cool.
Allyson - great idea about interns using Twitter. I think a wiki could do the same thing without being inundated with other chatter.
ReplyDelete@Allyson - That is a cool idea! For the purpose of receiving feedback, users could even set up "annonymous" accounts.
ReplyDelete@Kem - A wiki would be great as well! I can see the benefits of this over Twitter.