Needed a break from for Info Lit class planning... It has been my first O Week as a LL and has been just as busy as I thought it would be!
TWITTER! Well the first time I had heard of this THING was when the commerical plane went down in New York (Hudson River). The news on TV mentioned that the first reports of this crash were received through "Twitter" (Here is an article on this: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/twitter/4269765/New-York-plane-crash-Twitter-breaks-the-news-again.html). As the article states, someone tweated this event only 4 minutes after the crash- not bad. I just had to look further into this and so I registered and became a member (with yet another password and login).
To be honest, I haven't found a need to use this. I don't have many friends that are interested in using this program (yet!). The tweating that I have done is over the past week. I am looking forward to our Twitter week in March though. Can't see much use for Twitter in a library -except perhaps to provide users with yet another outlet for library information updates (e.g. database info etc). I will see how I feel when more 233Things friends begin tweating and report back!
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Heard on the radio this morning an interview with the American Actor/Comedian Seth Rogan. The radio announcer was trying to convince Seth to join Twitter and was explaining the benefits etc. Seth wasn't convinced of its use to him, but stated that he thought that Twitter was like one of those tv news bulletins (on the bottom of the tv screen) that provide quick one line updates on "important" current news items. How right he is. Many of us like to know what it happening, but don't need to know the full story!
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