Twitter reaches a critical mass
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Personally, I go in and out of using twitter, depending on how busy I am. Other people I know thrive on it; they love to be the first to know what’s up, what’s hot, what’s not. I usually just surf for interesting links. I am less inclined to track people’s conversations or want to be privy to the casual banter that fills my stream.
This week, I discovered a new tool for the mac called tweetie that has made it easier than ever before for me to track the conversations people are having or to responsibly reply to or re-tweet cool links. So I’m back on twitter and I’ve noticed a discernible increase in both the quantity and quality of conversation amongst my “tweeple”.
IS Support Associate Brian Ruby was talking about how TV media has been making a big deal of Twitter during the last week. It seems as though twitter has finally passed that threshold of normality, meaning that if you aren’t on twitter, you’re not normal. 
People like this blogger, who guffawed at the web service a year ago, are finally accepting that twitter might become a mainstay in their social media lifestyle.
Educators for the last two years have been excitedly promoting the tool as a way for teachers and students to develop their own PDN (Professional Development Networks) or PLN (Personal Learning Networks).
Twitter can also be used for unconventional purposes (check here and here). Last year, we used twitter to track what teachers were doing with technology.
