Twitter: stay connected with your friends

Features and Uses

Answer the question: what are you doing now?

Discover what your friends are doing and saying--and who their friends are

Watch trends and news develop "in the moment" - e.g., twitter traffic around the world

Applications of Information Fluency

Locating topical information and opinions

Locating friends, finding new ones and following them

Keeping informed about what's happening to your friends and vice versa

Evaluating the credibility of an author by his or her tweets and friends

Activities to try

Go to Twitter

Establish an account or log in (optional)

Search for a topic or user (go to sign in for search box)

Explore Twitter Blocks for new friends and networks (Sample)

Challenge: Search Twitter to see how much and what kind of traffic Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are attracting.