Twitter was a San Francisco-based website that allowed registered users to micro-blog entries of up to 140 characters in length. Now it is a mess known as X.
It also allows embedding of videos and photos within the micro-blog posts, which almost always are referred to as Tweets.
Like our wiki pages, tweets can be "Tagged", but are dubbed Hashtags, because there is tic-tac-toe or Hash sign in front of the series of letters or numbers being used as a tag.
During Oakland City Council Meetings, people usually include the #oakmtg hashtag when tweeting about the meeting. Sometimes when things get really fun, #oakmtg hashtag trends nationally! (The dates when it's trended nationally are listed on the #oakmtg entry.) Civic engagement is fun!
Oakland Wiki was on twitter with the easy to remember username of @OaklandWiki
awesome twitters:
- LakeMerritTree - the Eucalyptus by Lake Chalet that fell over. RIP.
- OaklandUnseen - heavily researched, scholarly journalism
- FakeJeanQuan - the mejor
- HaywardFault - the fault under our feet
- BART_ebooks - take bart to sunday
official twitters (boring):
- OaklandOPR - Oakland Parks and Rec
- CityofOaklandCA - City of Oakland Official Twitter
- oaklandmuseumca - Oakland Museum of CA
- EastBayExpress - Easy Bay Eckspress
- northoaklandnow - Oakland North
- Jean Quan - the mayor