HigherEd Twitter Crowds

As of recently, we have experienced an explosion of higher ed Twitter users. At the same time, twitter has become a crucial social media tool. Therefore, many of our twitter streams have become overwhelmed with multiple discussions. At times, I have wished for a way to only "listen" to select groups of individuals

Enter CrowdStatus.com. This tool allows you to create groups of Twitter users. The nice feature is that I can create a group, and then share the URL so everyone can take advantage of the same group.

On one page, you can see the latest updates from everyone in your group. It's a great way to get a snapshot of what is going on. It would be nice if the service refreshed each user as new tweets happened; however functionality is limited for the alpha release.

My first group: Higher Ed. I captured all the users from the UWEBD discussion, and added a few Twitterers I have been following to the list. You can check it out at: http://crowdstatus.com/HigherEdcrowd.aspx. Use the comments of this post to let me know if I missed you; I'll put you on there right away. Hopefully this will be useful.

(BTW, anyone with protected updates [Brad, FJ] can't be added to the stream)