What do you think of Twitter as a research tool?
Searching twitter is both useful and sometimes confusing. Twitter is always going to be about what is happening right now -- and in that way, it can be useful for current events, finding out what people are saying or thinking about what is going on, what links people are sharing to interesting blogs, commentaries, or news articles, etc. But essentially, it's too transient to be very useful for anything that is not occurring at this very moment in time.
Who did you follow? Did any one follow you?
We currently use twitter for our library here @germannalibrary. We have only thirty followers -- which is not much considering the amount of promoting and mentioning we do of our account. Hopefully we'll get some more in the fall. We follow twitter feeds such as:
@ALALibrary
@mental_floss
@GermannaCC
@TwitrLit
@librarybeat
@LibraryJournal
and several others.
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