Tweet

I was going to jump on the bandwagon and write about Twitter, but (a) I wasn’t entirely sure what to say about it and (b) the world and his wife have already written about Twitter and great length and with more insight and intelligence that I possess on the subject. So, you can read Joeyanne Libraryanne’s post, Phil Bradley’s musings on the use of Twitter in libraries or Phil’s guide to your first 24 hours on Twitter.

 There was quite a lengthly discussion on LIS-LINK about Twitter and its potential use in libraries, following (if I remember correctly) someone posting that use of Twitter was banned in their workplace. This led to Phil Bradley posting an interesting response about how Twitter can be used in libraries, which you can see as a blog post at the link above.

I first went on Twitter (not very long ago) because I like Stephen Fry and he’s an avid Twitter user, so I thought it must be alright…ahem, I mean because I thought I should try it out as part of my ongoing investigations into various forms of Web 2.0. Yes, I know I’m a bit slow on the uptake. Personally, I’m not entirely sure how I would use Twitter as an individual, because I don’t think I do anything interesting enough to tweet about. However, I do think that Twitter could be used quite well in a library context for the reasons Phil and Joeyanne Libraryanne outline far more effectively than I could.