Educational Origami

Twitter tends to be quite polarising. People either live and die by twitter or hate it. Many people have started a twitter account and never use it beyond the first forays and others dive in boots and all. For the latter, for the enthusiasts, twitter can become a key element of their social network or their PLN personal learning network.

While twitter is limited to 140 character per message this has not stopped people using this technology in creative ways. How about:

• The twitter opera – http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/8193917.stm
• Twitter & Iran – http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8099579.stm

A blog I have just come across – http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/ – specialises in visualising information and has condensed twitter in to the classic – “if ……. was hundred people” model. Where do you fit? Is twittter just a marketing tool for you or is it more?

Here is the visualisation.

Source: http://s3.amazonaws.com/infobeautiful/twitter2_550.gif

http://sysomos.com/insidetwitter