Embedding Twitter Hash Tag Feeds
While I was keeping up to date with the events in Egypt, an idea struck me. Wouldn't it be great for students to apply the theories that they learn in class to real life through the meidum of Twitter? For many, what we learn in class is far removed from our daily lives and we can't always make the connections between what we study and what goes on in the world around us.
During the Egyptian revolution, ordinary people were tweeting from Tahrir square, while, at the same time, news agencies were reporting on what (they thought) was going on. Through Twitter, we were taken into the complexity of real life events and we could view these from an objective and informed standpoint - in real time.
Twitter have made a widget available so that you can stream a Twitter hashtag feed in your webpage (for example #Egypt). I've made a video of this, in case anyone wants to use it for themselves.
Embedding a Twitter Hash Tag Feed into a Website from Digital Spaces on Vimeo.