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OK, lots of people I like are trying Twitter.
I’ve played a little with it too.
David Lee King has “Twitter Explained for Librarians, or 10 ways to use Twitter”
John Blyberg has commented here.
Kathy Sierra has made her thoughts known here.
I have to say I don’t get using something like Twitter ALL THE TIME. I can’t imagine enjoying that kind of apron string, leash or whatever metaphor works for you. It’s stressful enough populating a blog with paragraphs. Moving to a sentence oriented culture of Twitter, places it somewhere between blogs and IM/SMS. How much more so we need?
On the other hand, and there’s always another hand, I can see that this tool would be very cool in a mobile world using mobile devices. I’m not thinking of all-the-time sort of application. I am thinking that for short term events like conferences, conventions, seminars, trade shows and the like, it could be very useful to know where your cohort of friends, colleagues or roving reporters are and what they’re doing. (Or for tracking the kids at the mall.) It might even help to find the hot topic at the conference through a trusted circle of friends.
Hmmmm. And if we connected Twitter to GPS then – oh stop I’m creeping myself out.
Stephen

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Posted on: April 9, 2007, 10:37 pm Category: Uncategorized

By: stephen

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  1. Karl (aka yoyology) said
    on April 11, 2007 8:36 am

    My personal blog (http://yoyotxt.blogspot.com) is actually something very like this. I blog almost exclusively with text and photos from my phone.

  2. Jonathan said
    on April 12, 2007 6:56 am

    David Lee King nicely stated (in his weblog post on Twitter, linked above by Stephen) how we can best help each other to understand Web 2.0 developments: “Apparently, some in the library blogosphere are questioning why they should pay attention to twitter, and are wondering how it can be useful to libraries. Here’s what I’d say to that. Simply stated, if you’re asking why you should pay attention, you probably don’t need to. It’s not an interest of yours, and that’s cool…. And that’s ok. With emerging trends, you really should play with the stuff you’re interested in, and let others mess with things that don’t interest you. But then – and this is important – SHARE. So with Twitter, I’ll watch twitter and tell you if I find something useful for libraries. You go watch something else, and report back, too – that’s how the blogosphere works!”