I currently use twitter not for the described use of notifying family, friends and basically any one online that you have taken another breath, step. I use a twitter account for a notification service from a windows server located in my house so if i am out or away from home and the server has an error apart from loss of internet access of course alerts come through in real time to an application on my mobile phone notifying me to a problem with the server and service. I can of course see great uses for this type resource when it comes to travel, letting others know when you are on the way or held up. I also feel that as it is now quite a popular service a lot of sites are creating tweets for updates to the site content, I currently monitor one website i regularly visit. I feel the use for this in the classroom could be great not only to let students know in real-time when classes are cancelled or running late but also vice versa when students are running late or not coming in, with twitter client type applications it can cut down on the time it takes to send information out over the net. Over all i think this is a useful web 2.0 technology.
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