VirtualMV/Digital Learning Technologies/Blogging/MicroBlog

Overview
Instant messaging is starting to replace the microblogging as they get integrated into other applications such as Facebook, and Skype. Twitter is still a significant application but it will be interesting to see how well it adapts particularly as they "fiddle" with the interface (move to Apps) and streams (in 2013 they filtered the tweets and changed from RSS to JSON for APIs).

Issues
If you are using Twitter in a class using a hash tag, the tweets will disappear from your widget after a week. Under the terms of use in 2011 Twitter disallowed the creation of third party aggregators (sites saving Tweets).

However it is possible to save a # tag using Google Docs. A google doc to capture tweets Twitter Archive #vmvdlt