Twitter (@blazingfruit)

Twitter can be updated from my phone in the UK for the cost of a (local) sms message

@blazingfruit on twitter will reach me now. I’ll be using this page to let people know where I am and when as I’m teaching across three campusses (campii?) this year. Twitter won’t send updates to my phone in the UK - you need to have a Vodaphone account to receive updates – but I can send updates from my phone and they appear on the twitter page almost instantly. They cost the same as a text to a UK number according to feedback on the twitter help page that deals with sms updates.

The ‘telling people where I am today’ bit is rarely mentioned in all the hype but will actually be really useful. I wanted to use the twitter name ‘bodmas’ for obvious reasons, but some bored teenager in the US has registered that name (along with sohcahtoa and other obvious Maths words) and not used them – c’est la vie.

Alan Lew has a page about educational uses of Twitter with lots of links on his blog. The iLibrarian has a useful Twitter guide (although I just stumbled through the sign up process in about 5 minutes).

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