EDU 653 - Week 2 (Post 3) - Twitter in Plain English

Twitter in plain English helped me to understand some of the people I currently follow...To explain that sentence a little more, I love twitter and use it daily to read and to catch up with information. However, I use it mainly as an easy alternative to an RSS feed.  I've enjoyed using RSS for this class, but I find that most of the information is too long for me to read quickly throughout the day. However, with Twitter (and the accounts I follow) I get a snapshot of what the person is tweeting about, and an option to click a link to read more if I'd like. For me this fills a void between being out of touch with current events and reading a full post delivered through RSS. History in Pictures is a great example, if I see the tweet I can look at it and think about it for a few seconds without taking a whole bunch of time...maybe that's not what the founders had in mind, but I find it useful.




 That being said, after viewing the video I now understand why some of the folks I follow tweet about EVERYTHING. On a side note, feel free to follow me if you'd like @ianthomson2