Twitter is actually good for you! At least that’s what a Michigan State University study says. Basically, it says taking notes through Twitter helps you learn. (I could have told you that years ago!)
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Here’s the study I had mentioned in class today. Research found top posting times for the best possible engagement. These are the details from Poynter.
My take? Post something around 3pm. You should see some serious engagement. My other take? Don’t use Tumblr until after the kids are in bed.
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What Twitter and Facebook Mean For News - From the Pew Research Center’s Project for the Excellence in Journalism’s State of the News Media 2012.
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8 Crazy Things IBM Scientists Have Learned Studying Twitter
A team of IBM researchers spends their days sifting through Twitter. They use live streams of tweets to develop machines that are smarter than the typical computer, an area of study known as “machine learning.”
Using these tweets, they’ve developed technology that allows a machine to understand that some tweets are just background noise and others are newsworthy and important.
Click here to see what they’ve learned→
For instance, a tweet that says “I urgently need my cup of Starbucks and a scone and before I head over to Staples” is distinctly different than a Tweet that says: “URGENT: I just bit into a scone from @starbucks to find over 10 staples baked into it. Please RT and be careful.”
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