Twitter

I signed up to follow 2 of the 10 most followed librarians on Twitter.   I'm interested and even tend to embrace new technology (my daughter and I would often be incommunicado without texting) but I'm not entirely sure about Twitter.  I might be more interested if my tweets were from people I know.  That being said, reading my tweets did lead to an interesting blog about Sarah Palin.  

While I don't know that I need to know every small thing some one is doing,  there were a few microblogging applications that were interesting to me.  One was writing small stories -- an article in ars technica talks about NY Times writer Matt Richtel using Twitter to write a "Twiller" a thriller story in 140 character bits as well as writers writing one line microstories on Brave New Fiction,  a web application.  I'm thinking I may need to subscribe to Brave New Fiction!  Another article in ars technica referred to a classroom application where students used twitter as homework to reinforce material covered in class with real life --as things came up that reminded them of stuff in class,  twitter became the tool to connect conversations inside and outside of class.  

So, in the Library setting, in the scenario where you're working with a patron to answer a difficult question and find an additional source right after they leave (for those of us who have a hard time giving up working on a question! ), Twitter might be a great way to get that info out.  If only it didn't require yet another log-in to remember!