Find Your College on Twitter
Tuesday, November 17, 2009 by David Pierce 
It seems these days that everyone’s jumping with both feet onto the Twitter bandwagon – and that includes colleges. Employees, departments, school teams, and even college presidents are getting onto Twitter, and engaging with students and the public in cool new ways.
One of the best ways to see how colleges are using Twitter is GlobalQuad, a site tracking the tweets and twitters of some of the best colleges around the United States. A lot of schools now have Twitter accounts for things like alerts and news, as well as reporting sports scores and the like.
But some schools are using Twitter in even more awesome ways. For instance, the University of Virginia (where I’m a senior) has accounts for announcing various things happening around campus, tracking our sports teams, giving career advice, and even an account for the school newspaper.
GlobalQuad tracks them all, and puts them into a single feed that acts as a University-wide news feed, that you can either follow on GlobalQuad or Twitter. And UVA’s not the only school – there are a rapidly-growing number of universities and colleges that are using Twitter (and you can even add your own, if it’s not already on GlobalQuad).
Twitter’s undoubtedly the fastest way to get news and information that matters to YOU, and when we’re in college, knowing what’s going on, what there is to do, and when your team wins a soccer game is pretty awesome.
What else are colleges doing on Twitter? What do you wish yours would do?
Reader Comments (5)
The Penn State student run blog, Onward State published a list of over 80 "official" Penn State Twitter accounts. The article started with about 50 that were found with simple searching, and then commenters helped us fill out the list. You can see the article by clicking the link below.
http://onwardstate.com/2009/10/26/the-penn-state-twitterverse-is-expanding/
It was funny since a report (listed in the article Onward State posted) said Penn State only had 4 accounts. Duke was at the top of the list with something like 24 Twitter accounts.
Nice! It's really nice to know that Colleges are turning to social media also. I think that doing this unites students and promotes communication within their respective communities.
Our university has a Twitter account for parking (since we are primarily a commuter school and parking SUCKS after 10am or so). They update which lots still have a few free spaces, which ones are packed, and the occasional weather update! Maybe the only thing that the "Transportation and Parking Services" officers do that don't involve writing tickets :)
I was kinda surprised to find Yale on Twitter. But then I realized that Twitter been getting pretty popular so I guess it really isn't that amazing.
The funny thing is, I have found their tweets to actually be useful. They frequently tweet about speakers who are coming or new classes or discoveries by scientists here. All interesting stuff.
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