The Use of Tweets in Formal and Informal Educational Settings

Mandayam O. Thirunarayanan; Rhonda Berger; Natalie Paul; Lizette Pabon; Mark Osterman; Elizabeth Ferris

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2010 (Oct 18, 2010) pp. 2231–2234

Twitter is a popular site and service for sending and receiving messages, called ‘tweets,’ that are less than 140 characters in length. The purpose of this symposium is to report the results of a qualitative investigation of how tweets are being...