I've done it -signed up for Twitter and did a couple tweets. I had too many characters - I'll have to learn to abbreviate and not use a, an, the, etc. That will be hard for me! I decided to follow a few of the librarians listed in Elllyssa Kroski's article, and of course, Michael Sauer was one I chose to follow. Nothing had been posted for several hours, so I'll have to check again. And I wasn't interested in Jessamyn West's tweets, even though she is listed as the librarian with the most followers. I did send an invite to Allana, as well as a few family and other friends, but it was closing time at the library, so had to get off Twitter for the evening. I plan to follow NLC News, also.
I really don't think Twitter, or any micro-blogging is for me. I don't care to share what I'm doing all the time with strangers, and most people I know aren't on Twitter.
Bigger libraries could probably use Twitter to let people know what events are coming, but our small library doesn't host many events. We don't really have need of this as a promotional tool. We also don't have a lot of time when we are in the library to spend on updating technological stuff.
I doubt I'll use it very much, as there just aren't enough hours in my day for another thing. But it was interesting to learn about.
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Hi Keri, I believe I have accepted your Twitter invite. You'll quickly see however that I don't do a lot of Tweeting.
I bet you won't have any problem finishing up the rest of the Things. The last few Things are a lot of fun.
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