The microblogging tool, Twitter, is becoming increasingly visible. Twitter allows you to publish short posts, or "tweets" to a list of "followers," those who subscribe to your Twitter identity. I found out recently that our astronomy teacher, John Blackwell, director of Grainger Observatory, is now using Twitter to keep his students apprised of the weather so they'll know whether to come out to the observatory. How convenient! John has integrated his tweets into the observatory website (see image at right) but chose Twitter because students could subscribe to it on various media (phone, web, email). Stellar use of a new web 2.0 tool (pun intended).
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