Twitter

"Twitter is a social network where you post short bursts of thoughts and information"

Definition: Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author's profile page and delivered to the author's subscribers who are known as followers.

Twitter is fundamentally a communication tool between people all around the world. The aim of twitter is to show and share everything you are doing by publishing a quick and short post on your twitter's profile, and keep updating it so people can follow you and all the things you are doing; follow your life basically. People can also comment on each other posts; and Twitter website can be accessed from any computers but also from some specific mobile phones.

Personally I don't like the idea of Twitter, I think that with all these new sort of technologies in which people exhibit there life to everyone there is no more privacy in people's life.

I can't really figure out how to incorporate Twitter in the classroom, I think it is a bit dangerous for students to use it as they can read and access inappropriate stuff/posts. The teacher could maybe do a private Twitter access between her/him and the students only, to send some messages to remind students of doing a work or bringing something to the classroom for instance (instead of writing it in their diary). I don't know a lot about Twitter, but if it is possible to do private posts, it can have some usefulness; to communicate with the parents as well. But I definitely think that it is not a useful and essential innovation at all, there are so many technologies much more better to use...