Open Thread Wednesday: Twitter Tools for Summer

By Anastasia Salter. It’s no secret that many of us at ProfHacker are big fans of Twitter, using it for everything from conferences to classes to bot-making to, yes, posting pictures of our cats. Several ProfHackers have shared their favorite tools and hacks for working with Twitter: Natalie gathered several of them in her recent retrospective post. This last weekend served as another reminder that Twitter can be a powerful place to experience a simultaneous happening, as the fallout from Friday’s shooting at the University of California Santa Barbara spawned several vast online debates, including the confessional and confrontational #YesAllWomen hashtag. Coming in the wake of declarations that Twitter is “dead”, such moments provide further motivation to me for using Twitter. More...