Thing #19 -- Microblogging with Twitter

Acording to Wikipedia, "Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send "updates" (or "tweets"; text-based posts, up to 140 characters long) to the Twitter website, via short message service (e.g. on a cell phone), instant messaging, or a third-party application such as Twitterrific or Facebook". Twitter can serve as a learning network, a collaboration tool, a social network, a news source, a marketing tool, or a way to network with others on specific topics. You can set up a powerful personal learning network -- sharing website links, blog posts announcements, and notices of events and conferences. If you'd like to find out more about Twitter, try these discovery resources:

• Explore Twitter
• Explore the Twitter Fan Wiki to learn to do many things with Twitter.
• Try Terraminds to search users and tweets for the past 3 months.
• http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2008/03/twitter-geo-mas.html
• http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/magazine/15-07/st_thompson
• http://www.disruptiveconversations.com/2007/12/the-10-ways-i-l.html
  

Discovery Activities:

• Reflection blog post -- write about your thoughts on Twitter.
• What is one way this could be used in the library? (or new ways, if your library is already using Twitter).How could this type of service be of value to you? How could this type of service be used in your own professional learning?

If you want more:

1. Set up your Twitter account
2. Find others with your interests
3. Twitter for a week
4. Write a second reflection on your use of Twitter.