Everything Twitter courtesy Squidoo

Squidoo is a great site for staying up to date with all things technical, so it is absolutely mindbogglingly comprehensive when it comes to Twitter. For those of you who think Twitter does nothing…the amount of apps you can find on Squidoo ought to give you an inkling as to how ubiquitous twitter is and just how entrenched in the internet. Apps do not get that kind of attention when they are fizzers. I am using TweetDeck and am finding it very helpful and can see the real possibilities for classroom and educational use. Email is such a chore and so passée. Twitter streamlines communications so you are not needing to text nor to you have to load an email client when much of what needs to be said or communicated in a working situation really is less than 141 characters. Besides TweetDeck the other popular Twitter app is HootSuite. The site is very well designed and extremely helpful. If you play the video you will be told very clearly how HootSuite works and how it can be useful to you. I applaud them on their capacity to deliver good quality, instructive material which answers the questions…so why would I want HootSuite and what does it do? Having seen the video I have decided to stay with TweetDeck until I can grow into HootSuite because I really like what I saw but I am not yet ready for it.