Tweeting around on twitter, not quite sure what to do with it.  Looks like you just connect up with existing friends. Asked about finding like-minded people, but have no answers so far as I’ve only got 6 followers. Need to start following you lot but I bet you’ll all just be doing SMiELT homework.

Watched the timeline for a while, mostly pretty mundane conversations, should I start to follow someone randomly?  Saw a mildly erotic tweet “Inspecting the hair on the back of a hand, wondering what that hand would feel like on my skin.” and started following that twitterer, problem is, there seems nowhere to flag content or users as inappropriate for students.  Would we need a filter to use this with a class? If so, would it only filter rude words?  Or would we just avoid the public timeline?  The other thing about the public timeline is that all languages congregate there.

Twitter is perfect for the present continuous though!

I let Alicia Rey introduce me to Pownce where you can use more than the tweety 140 characters.  It also lets you embed photos and videos (but that could be even more problematic if there is no filter) . I don’t feel up to participating in Pownce properly yet, I’m spreading myself too thinly.

Lucy