A Content Analysis on Articles Using Twitter in Education

Twitter is a micro blogging portal that proves extremely useful across academic applications. Teachers, students, and parents can benefit greatly of the advantages offered by using Twitter in education. Twitter is a popular social networking platform for microblogging, helps users to connect by sending short messages of up to 140 characters. Although it encourages individuals to be incessant, its importance is not evident in the educational sense. This paper is the first to explore longitudinal analysis of the use of Twitter in teaching and learning from 2006 to 2015 over 10 years, to consider whether it will help students or not. We identified and documented the research profile, how Twitter was used in school, the implications on communications and the effect on learning outcomes for students. The results suggest that Twitter has been used more widely for contact and appraisal purposes. While Twitter shows potential to improve connections between students and teachers, there remains a definitive cause between Twitter usage and teaching results. The use of a "push" technology including teacher submitting crucial course content, homework assignments and exam deadlines to students as well as a forum for peer engagement possibly is currently the most useful of Twitter. There are so many obstacles to use Twitter for teaching and learning. On the basis of our literature review, we suggested five recommendations that could better improve the educational importance of the use of Twitter. We have found some shortcomings of previous research and suggested potential work for education by using Twitter.