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Twitter works for me . . . . usually

I’ve been using Twitter for about 4 months now.  Because I was a late adopter, I didn’t have to work too hard to get a small list of followers and I was happy with the social chatter and light hearted banter that goes on.  I rather like knowing what is happening in Canada, Singapore, Seattle and around UK as a kind of “ambient awareness”.  I occasionally trade links and tips, and pimp my own blog a bit.

My first Twitter experiment

This week, I got ambitious and tried a little experiment.  Inspired by a list of “e learning experts” who Twitter, I wondered what it is like to follow a social media celebrity.  I do follow some celebs, but I know them personally.  I’ve shared a meal with them – so that is different.  This is following the guru the way other people do.

I picked the first name of the list.  It happened to be @amcafee, the Professor at Harvard.  Good choice, because I am genuinely interested in his work on Enterprise 2.0.

Well, I didn’t get the great social media effect.  I suppose you don’t all the time.  Anyway, @amcafee twittered that he didn’t know why he had so many new followers.  It seemed many people had the same idea as I.  Immediately I replied with a tweet explaining the list that billed him.  Returning from London late the following evening, I half expected an @jotoo Thanks for the info.  Nothing.  Only a tweet explaining why he had more followers and pointing to the list.  Hmm…

The e-learning specialists on Twitter

Well, the Prof pointed to the list, so I had another look.  There are quite few Brits but not the godfather of online education, Chris Hambly.  @biz, Biz Stone, the founder of Twitter is on the list, but no one else was listed as a Twitter or micro-bloggiing experts.  Fascinating.

Well, how many people use Twitter and micro-blogging to teach?  We need to add ourselves to the list!