“Instagram is classified as a visually dominant platform and Twitter a textually dominant platform. The essence of of Twitter is textual, but that does not make it exclusively textual in nature."
― (Arceneaux, 2019)
― (Arceneaux, 2019)
General:
- 500 million tweets sent each day
- 326 million people monthly users
- Steady increase of 9% users each year
- 80% of users are not from the U.S.
- 24% of users are adults - 45% are between 18-24
- The origin of the # hashtag
- 280 word limit for tweets create concise, effective, meaningful posts
- Verified users represent actual people like the President of the United States and the Prime Minister of Canada
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Teacher Examples:
- Join the UBC MET Twitter following which already has 700+ followers https://twitter.com/UBCMETcommunity
References:
https://elearningindustry.com/15-ways-twitter-in-education-students-teachers
https://blog.hootsuite.com/twitter-statistics/
Arceneaux, P. C., & Dinu, L. F. (2018). The social mediated age of information: Twitter and Instagram as tools for information dissemination in higher education. New Media & Society,20(11), 4155-4176. doi:10.1177/1461444818768259
Thomas, R. B., Johnson, P. T., & Fishman, E. K. (2018). Social Media for Global Education: Pearls and Pitfalls of Using Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Journal of the American College of Radiology, 15(10), 1513-1516. doi:10.1016/j.jacr.2018.01.039
https://elearningindustry.com/15-ways-twitter-in-education-students-teachers
https://blog.hootsuite.com/twitter-statistics/
Arceneaux, P. C., & Dinu, L. F. (2018). The social mediated age of information: Twitter and Instagram as tools for information dissemination in higher education. New Media & Society,20(11), 4155-4176. doi:10.1177/1461444818768259
Thomas, R. B., Johnson, P. T., & Fishman, E. K. (2018). Social Media for Global Education: Pearls and Pitfalls of Using Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Journal of the American College of Radiology, 15(10), 1513-1516. doi:10.1016/j.jacr.2018.01.039