Comments on: Nearly drowned: Tweeting at BreakNECC speed http://blog.teachersfirst.com/thinkteach/2009/07/01/nearly-drowned-tweeting-at-breaknecc-speed/ A "teacher to go" blogs about teaching, technology, and education in general Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:06:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: NECC ‘09: Twitter and its discontents? « Andrew B. Watt’s Blog http://blog.teachersfirst.com/thinkteach/2009/07/01/nearly-drowned-tweeting-at-breaknecc-speed/#comment-5400 NECC ‘09: Twitter and its discontents? « Andrew B. Watt’s Blog Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:57:46 +0000 http://blog.teachersfirst.com/thinkteach/2009/07/01/nearly-drowned-tweeting-at-breaknecc-speed/#comment-5400 [...] 2, 2009 · Leave a Comment I thought NECC was a twitterfest, as did the folks at Think Like a Teacher, until one of my PLN friends showed me how to use the Twitter search API to count the number of [...] […] 2, 2009 · Leave a Comment I thought NECC was a twitterfest, as did the folks at Think Like a Teacher, until one of my PLN friends showed me how to use the Twitter search API to count the number of […]

]]> By: Andrew B. Watt http://blog.teachersfirst.com/thinkteach/2009/07/01/nearly-drowned-tweeting-at-breaknecc-speed/#comment-5398 Andrew B. Watt Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:50:31 +0000 http://blog.teachersfirst.com/thinkteach/2009/07/01/nearly-drowned-tweeting-at-breaknecc-speed/#comment-5398 I thought NECC was a twitterfest, too, until one of my PLN friends showed me how to use the Twitter search API to count the number of posts that used the #necc and #necc09 hashtags. Counting the responses even after the conference ended, there were about 200 users of Twitter and about 1500 tagged messages. I posted over a hundred, and I believe you and a few others posted a lot as well, which means that a lot of users posted only one or two. Of course, there may have been a lot that went untagged; I know I posted at least as many untagged messages as tagged during the conference, because I went from about 800 tweets to 1200 over the course of Sunday to Thursday. Even so, the statistical evidence suggests that the Twitterers weren't as much of an influence as we thought we were. I thought NECC was a twitterfest, too, until one of my PLN friends showed me how to use the Twitter search API to count the number of posts that used the #necc and #necc09 hashtags. Counting the responses even after the conference ended, there were about 200 users of Twitter and about 1500 tagged messages. I posted over a hundred, and I believe you and a few others posted a lot as well, which means that a lot of users posted only one or two.

Of course, there may have been a lot that went untagged; I know I posted at least as many untagged messages as tagged during the conference, because I went from about 800 tweets to 1200 over the course of Sunday to Thursday. Even so, the statistical evidence suggests that the Twitterers weren’t as much of an influence as we thought we were.

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