Comments on: Colgate University gets the updates of his official student Twitterer on its homepage

By: N Campbell

N Campbell — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:30:52 +0000

In one week our school has gained 8 followers–two of them are other colleges. LOL

I think it will catch on, but I think it will take time. I’m looking at it as a long-term, i.e. at least a year-long experiment.

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By: Karine Joly

Karine Joly — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 12:09:33 +0000

Thanks for the info, Brad and John. Interesting to see some institutions using Twitter as part of their communication tool box. I’d be really interested to learn more about the results.

Thanks for sharing your opinions, Robert and Matt.

By: John McCrory

John McCrory — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 02:24:27 +0000

I created a twitter feed for our law school and placed it on our home page last week, under the heading “Now @ Pierce Law” — it’s slow to start, but I expect it to grow as the school community gets used to it.

The idea is to use it for all sorts of updates — from what’s happening to ‘there’s a blue honda accord in the Daniel Webster parking lot with its lights on’ to lost and found, etc.

Now we finally might get all that ephemeral stuff off our e-mail system.

By: Matthew Levy

Matthew Levy — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:37:40 +0000

I think it will work, so long as it isn’t branded as “Twitter”. Skinning it as something else makes it seem like a quick view into the life of Colgate. No, prospective students are jumping on Twitter in droves, but they’ll appreciate the perceived transparency on the site.

By: Bradjward

Bradjward — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:31:47 +0000

That was my research, Robert.

Regardless, I think Twitter can fill the gaps between blog posts, as we are doing on http://go.butler.edu/cs. It occasionally disappears when we hit our API limit because we are still working on getting all of our IP’s whitelisted.

Here’s a preview of what it will look like:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bradjward/2808392733/sizes/o/

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:56:38 +0000

Not really. Which university recently published a report that only 2 out of 300 of their incoming students have twitter accounts?

Twitter is, in my experience, something web developers and editors get excited about, and pretty much no one else.