I just created a Twitter account about a week ago. However, I can see how using it for research could work, especially if you follow people who are in higher education or have advanced degrees. Those individuals will likely have followers and/or followings that may be applicable to the research a student is working on.

I really have never thought of twitter as a research tool before. Intriguing !

Hi to you all, well... we have to bear in mind that Twitter is not the best example as a research tool. However, if you follow "big" and "famous" names (writers, authors, presenters), you can get a lot of information from them as they share a lot. Apart from that, official universities, newspapers, schools, etc also post links about different topics which can be useful when doing research. Greetings from Argentina, Maria :)

I am still not sure on using twitter with students but I like the idea of possibly using twitter to follow authors.