Twitter Use 1

As one of the five ways to use Twitter, people could use it to keep a group together while on-the-go, sending quick messages or links back and forth, for situations in which complicated, back-and-forth explanations are not necessary.  According to the poster Kasey found, one of the predecessor applications to Twitter was a program that allowed taxi drivers to communicate.

An article from a marketing blog explains Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey's inspiration:  "Jack was fascinated by the fact that all the users of this software – taxi drivers, limo drivers, couriers  – were really just reporting what they were doing; stripping information down to its bare essence. And thus the seed for Twitter was planted."

Although Twitter might not be ideal for a weekly class, where the ideas are bigger, students are not necessarily on the road, and immediacy is less of a concern, I suggest the class use a hash tag to track our class-related comments.  I sent this message to a list of class members who put their Twitter usernames on their blogs:

#Trinblogwar For students in the Trinity Blog Warriors class I suggest this hash tag. Put it in class-related Tweets. Please!2 minutes ago from web
Using a hash tag would make it easier for class members to follow each other, by simply clicking on the hash tag in any message, instead of trying to find the Twitter accounts of class members, and then creating a list, as I did.  It might also allow members of the class who use the hash tag to more easily have a conversation, and for other people, both in the class and outside it, to follow along.