Tag: Twitter
How to find your Twitter RSS feed URL
October 31st, 2011 at 09:10
It’s surprisingly difficult to find the RSS feed for a Twitter stream. Here is the way to do it: Find out your Twitter numeric ID (you can do this by entering a Twitter username at idfromuser Add it into the following URL (replace the Xs) http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/XXXXXXX.rss
Twitter in Universities
1 June 28th, 2011 at 11:06
How much use is an official University Twitter account? Brian Kelly today posts some interesting Social Analytics for Russell Group University Twitter Accounts Of the 20 Russell Group Universities only Newcastle University seems not to have an official account, which just goes to show how important social media is now seen in attracting students. There are [...]
E-learning Community March 2011: Social Media in HE
1 February 18th, 2011 at 08:02
The next E-learning Community lunchtime seminar is Wednesday 2nd March, from 1-2 pm in C15 Pope Social media and Web 2.0 technologies such as blogs, wikis, social networks, and Twitter offer an expanded range of teaching and learning possibilities. While university marketing departments are actively promoting their institutions in the student recruitment marketplace via [...]
Advent Calendar Day #4: Backing up & saving your tweets
December 4th, 2010 at 08:12
A Twitter tip for today’s Advent Calendar Offering. Apologies to those who don’t use Twitter, but if you do, you may need to save off some tweets (such as your favourites) or back up your pearls of wisdom. There are a few tools to do this. although it’s worth remembering that Twitter only allows you [...]