Twitterwall

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Twitterwall, 2014

The or the so-called Twitterwall (engl., Dt, mutatis mutandis. Bulletin board at Twitter ) is a monitor or a projection with short messages the micro-blogging application Twitter , which is used for events: it constitutes a synchronous "wall" of the participating written Tweets to a predetermined uniform hash tag (engl., hash represents the corresponding mark as keywords used pound sign #; to tag , verb , germ, dt.. denote ).

The Twitterwall is displayed for all participants in parallel to an ongoing event such as a discussion round . A question of understanding can be asked via the Twitterwall, which other participants can respond to. Source references can also be stored. At events with different workshops or working groups , the topics or results from workshops running in parallel can be tweeted and thus incorporated.

With the Twitterwall, participation is not only limited to the attendees at an event; participants from all over the Internet can participate in discussions. It is typical of the Twitterwall that both local and virtually connected participants can read and answer the tweets.

With a moderated Twitter wall, editorially selected tweets are carried directly into the discussion.

On the positive side, the Twitter wall can be a low-threshold option for quick feedback from mobile devices; on the negative side, a Twitter wall can disrupt an event with inappropriate short messages.

After the initial euphoria of Twitter walls at events, the Twitter wall is sometimes only faded in after the actual discussion round, so that the discussion participants on the stage can specifically comment on selected tweets.

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