<p>^I’d be flattered :)</p>
<p>My experience with Twitter is that it’s used as a secondary social network/quasi-Facebook in certain shared-interest Internet communities–think CC, but different. And yes, stalking celebrities. Sometimes the shared interest IS stalking celebrities.</p>
<p>That’s the only time I’ve ever seen people using Twitter. (Well, that and #iranelection.) I always feel that things like this come off as an attempt by the college/organization/government official (!) to appear Young and Hip to the New Generation and, well, it has the opposite effect.</p>
<p>I’m a rising senior and I don’t use twitter, nor do I plan to. I’m not sure I’d want to have college admissions on my facebook either; it’s better that they send stuff to my house and email.</p>
<p>I have a Twitter but do not use it regularly; when I do go on, it’s generally to stalk celebrities. I would never communicate with a college on Twitter or Facebook, which many universities seem to be trying to encourage, simply because I wouldn’t want to give a college that easy access to my online life. I’m fairly careful about what I do online (no one other than me can see my facebook pictures, for instance) but that doesn’t mean I would want an admissions counselor to be able to see my tweets or my facebook wall.</p>
<p>I don’t know any high school or college students that use Twitter regularly. The whole concept of Twitter is like the bare bones of the Facebook feed and I’m surprised Twitter has gotten as popular in the news as it has. </p>
<p>Unless you’re a celeb who wants to be more in touch with your fans (it provides the right kind of publicity for that kind of thing that is both impersonal and personal), there are better sites for social networking.</p>
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<p>My feelings, too. For every college that sent me a post-admission survey about their recruiting efforts, I would mark Facebook and Twitter low in terms of optimal means of communication. I’m all for finding a college where I feel comfortable talking with and approaching faculty and (admissions) staff, etc., but I think that Facebook and Twitter are too informal a means of communication for something like college admissions.</p>
<p>I don’t get Twitter. I tried it last summer at the urging of several people. It seemed like it was the hot thing in social media, so I figured I’d get on board. Now, all those people seem to have moved on to foursquare. I checked in a month or so ago and Twitter is not exactly a ghost town, but it’s like Branson, MO. Sure, there are lots of people going there, but with all of those walkers, portable oxygen tanks and long lines to snap up the early-bird special, it still doesn’t really qualify as a happening scene.</p>
<p>And that’s a good thing for prospective college students. Why would they want to be so exposed to college admissions officials? Don’t they get into enough hot water as it is with some of their public displays on the Internet? Now colleges want to connect directly into their networked world? I agree with pandem, above, who thinks it would be weird for a college adcom to start playing stalker and BFF pen-pal.</p>
<p>I’m still a big fan of AdComs using blogs and RSS feeds by which the applicants can lurk and play the voyeur with an official, managed content stream from the admissions office. Conversely, turning it around and opening up the door for the admissions office to play voyeur on student’s comings and goings…well, that can only spell trouble.</p>
<p>Whether it’s because Twitter is the Branson, MO of the Internet in the eyes of high school students or because the kids are too smart to leave a key under their Internet doormat for the adcom at the college of their dreams…I think it’s a good thing that this isn’t catching on.</p>
<p>I don’t know a single teenager who uses Twitter, and I know a lot of teenagers. Facebook allows for Twitter, and much more.</p>
<p>Twitter is something that the media has attempted to force upon the masses. Why would anyone use twitter when facebook is easier and does a lot more.</p>
<p>well as a freshmen going to college this year i know a lot of people from my high school use twitter. i use it to stalk celebrities and get yankees updates but i have contacted my college through twitter. they helped me solve a problem i had bahaha its good 
i <3 twitter</p>
<p>This probably isn’t working because students want to put work/college aside while on something like twitter and just talk with friends/ to relieve stress. College doesnt need to be something that is present in every single one of our activities and moves like these can push students away from stalker-y schools (the type that emails you every day!)</p>
<p>I use Twitter a lot.</p>
<p>I never, ever tweet stuff like status updates for Facebook. The best use of Twitter is to follow important people, not your peers. I follow mostly sports reporters, new outlets, politicians, athletes, and etc. Its a really great source for news if you build up a good group of accounts to follow. It also allows quite a bit of back and forth, with a surprising number of people I follow being open to discussion with their followers. That said, it would never even occur to me to follow my University.</p>
<p>I’m a teenager. I don’t know of any of my peers that have a twitter. I made one, followed a few soccer players with it, got bored, and haven’t used it since. Definitely would not use it for finding out info about college when I can get that from CC, collegeboard.com, other websites, etc.</p>
<p>This might be a case of some adults thinking they’re “cool” and “hip” just because they’re using technology.</p>
<p>The only time I ever actually used twitter was when it provided the only information on a college baseball game and it was…ok</p>
<p>I would say that I liked using blogs to find out about schools, especially Chicago, Swarthmore and Johns Hopkins which all have admissions blogs, in addition to websites.</p>
<p>I can’t really see communicating via Twitter going anywhere… it’s a little bit funny</p>
<p>I have no opinion on the Twitter thing, but I love the song “Sounds of Silence.”</p>
<p>I like Twitter, but I don’t know why anyone would use it for anything other than sharing clever one-liners and inside jokes with friends. I mean, the character limit is so restrictive that, unless you already know the context of the tweet from elsewhere, it’s just not readable. When I see the words “check out blah blah” or “new blah blah coming up” on Twitter, I automatically tune out.</p>
<p>Basically, I don’t want college representatives cluttering my social networks.</p>
<p>Tufts has the best admissions twitter, srsly. [Dan</a> in Admissions (TuftsAdmissions) on Twitter](<a href=“http://twitter.com/TuftsAdmissions]Dan”>http://twitter.com/TuftsAdmissions) But he also has an account here on CC, so I mean, what do you expect - they use social media well in general. :)</p>
<p>I started using twitter this year just for the sake of having a place to rant, so that I wouldn’t bother my fb friends with countless “AHHH sat subject tests college essays deadlines blah blah blah!”</p>