Twittering past Pareto

Pushing past Pareto's Law (80/20), twitter authorship appears to be about 90%-written by 10% of the platform's users. That analysis, from Harvard Business Publishing's blog, concludes that twitter is a one-way and one-to-many venue. It also leads some people to conclude that those who twitter are self-absorbed.

An older source (from 2008) puts twitter in perspective for teaching in higher ed: academHacK's Twitter for Academia. That article itemizes 12 uses of twitter for academic and teaching purposes. The academHacK recommends use of the tool to build community for learners as well as specific assignments, such as rule based writing. While admittedly longer than a tweet, academHacK's article is concise and wastes no words.

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