Twitter related information?

They are permanent, they are searchable and they are public. Anyone can search tweets on Twitter, whether they are a member or not.

Life's short. And that's why we should have multiple social networking accounts. Because hey, 'they're free and always will be', right? Take Twitter for example. This microblogging website has been enchanting people the world over ever since it was founded in the year 2006. So much so, that your favourite celebrity now seems a breath away. All thanks to Twitter.

Let's say you are interested in learning more about cloud computing. First, you could search Twitter to see if anyone is talking (tweeting) about cloud computing.

A quick search reveals that lots of Twitter members are talking about cloud computing. 

Katy perry(@katyperry) was the most followed person on Twitter. she was followed by Justin Bieber, Barack Obama, Lady Gaga, YouTube, Taylor Swift, Britney Spears, Rihanna, Instagram, and Justin Timberlake.

The first Tweet was sent by Jack Dorsey in San Francisco.Twitter prototype was first used as an internal service for Odeo employees.

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Twitter Was Launched In 2006, But Really Took Off During The 2007 South By Southwest Music Festival, Where There Were Two Big Plasma Screens In Conference Hallways With Streaming Twitter Messages.

Now you could do one of several things. You could simply keep tabs on cloud computing by returning and searching Twitter each day (not very efficient -- but effective) or you could join Twitter and follow people who have posted tweets that catch your interest.

The First Tweet From Outer Space Was Posted By An Astronaut From The International Space Station On January 22, 2010.

The Highest Ever Number Of Tweets Per Second Was Almost 9,000, When Beyonce Announced Her Pregnancy On MTV In August 2011.

As a Twitter member, you can post your own tweets or you can just remain a follower and lurk. 

Nelson Mandela, Christina Aguilera, Salman Rushdie, And The Pope All Joined Twitter In 2011.

Twitter uses an open-source Web framework called Ruby on Rails (RoR). The API  is open and available to application developers. 

The Top Hashtag On Twitter In 2011 Was #Egypt Thanks To The Revolution There And Hosni Mubarak’s Resignation.

Although counts of tweets citing academic papers are used as an informal indicator of interest, little is known about who tweets academic papers and who uses Twitter to find scholarly information. Without knowing this, it is difficult to draw useful conclusions from a publication being frequently tweeted.

This study surveyed 1,912 users that have tweeted journal articles to ask about their scholarly-related Twitter uses. Almost half of the respondents (45%) did not work in academia, despite the sample probably being biased towards academics. Twitter was used most by people with a social science or humanities background. People tend to leverage social ties on Twitter to find information rather than searching for relevant tweets.

Twitter is used in academia to acquire and share real-time information and to develop connections with others. Motivations for using Twitter vary by discipline, occupation, and employment sector, but not much by gender.

These factors also influence the sharing of different types of academic information. This study provides evidence that Twitter plays a significant role in the discovery of scholarly information and cross-disciplinary knowledge spreading. Most importantly, the large numbers of non-academic users support the claims of those using tweet counts as evidence for the non-academic impacts of scholarly research.

Scholars use a range of different types of social web platforms in their professional activities. Twitter is one of the most popular microblogging platforms in many countries, allowing users to broadcast short messages.

it is important to understand the typical motivations for using Twitter in scholarly communication.

This contextual information is important to help interpret the meaning of tweet counts as a scholarly impact indicator. Users were selected on the basis that they had tweeted at least one journal article.

The main previous evidence for the value of Tweet counts as impact indicators for academic papers is that they have statistically significant, but small, positive correlations with citation counts in various disciplines, including the medical sciences

Scholarly communication in the digital age includes formal and informal uses of the internet to discuss, publish and disseminate scientific discoveries

Twitter seems to be used by a substantial minority of academics, although this varies by country. Nothing is known about the extent to which non-academics use Twitter to share scholarly information.