I never could make the connection between twitter and how we could make use of it in the library.
Twitter is the microblogging site where you can post comments in 140 character chunks. I have started to relent now that twitter "tweets" (comments posted on twitter) can be searched. Using their brother/sister/cousin website search.twitter.com you can search for terms used in tweets. As the events in Mumbai continued over the thanksgiving break, many reporters indicated that they followed events using twitter. The positive side of this citizen journalism is that we all can be heard, but with it comes the responsibility that accompanies that priviledge.
So again, how can it be used in libraries? It is a tool that can give immediate, real time, and unfiltered comments and reports on events and incidents from around the world. Perhaps it would be easier to attend the inauguration via twitter than it will be to actually get to the DC Mall.
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