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abstractabstractwhile microblogging service twitter increasingly popular among educators offers numerous affordances learning relationship formal education systems remains complicated generally ambivalent educator attitudes institutional policies better understand role twitter plays education conducted survey 755 k16 educators yielded quantitative qualitative data concerning medium used respondents reported intense multifaceted utilization service professional development pd uses common interactions students families educators valued twitters personalized immediate nature positive collaborative community facilitated many cited twitters role combating various types isolation described superior traditional professional development finish discussing implications educators researchers educational institutionskeywords twittermicrobloggingeducationsocial mediaprofessional development acknowledgmentsthe authors thank raymond flores texas tech university anonymous reviewers helpful feedback earlier drafts articleadditional informationnotes contributorsjeffrey p carpenterjeffrey p carpenter assistant professor department education elon university research interests include collaborative learning social media 21stcentury teaching learning found twitter doccarpenter please address correspondence regarding article jeffrey p carpenter elon university campus box 2105 elon nc 27244 usa email jcarpenter13elonedu daniel g krutkadaniel g krutka assistant professor department curriculum instruction texas womans university research interests concern citizenship education role participatory media might play cultivating democratic educational experiences found twitter dankrutka