LSE produces new Twitter guide for academics

How can Twitter, which limits users to 140 characters per tweet, have any relevance to universities and academia, where journal articles are between 3,000-8,000 words long? Can anything of academic value ever be said in just 140 characters? A new Twitter guide published by the LSE Public Policy Group and the LSE Impact of Social Sciences blog seeks to answer this question, and show academics and researchers how to get the most out of the micro-blogging site. The Guide is designed to lead the novice through the basics of Twitter but also provide tips on how it can aid the teaching and research of the more experienced academic tweeter

TweetDeck by Twitter

TweetDeck is a #Twitter client that makes it easy to manage multiple Twitter accounts from a single application interface. You can choose to view your Timeline, Inbox, Mentions, Tweets, Favorites and other Twitter items, and you can also post new Tweets directly from the application. The program also provides update notifications and lets you search across all your Twitter accounts. In addition to your Twitter accounts, you can also add your Facebook news feeds and notifications to TweetDeck. Other features include real-time streaming, scheduled tweets and an option to set global filters for text content, author and source. Unlike previous versions, TweetDeck 1.0 is no longer an Adobe AIR application