Twitter!

twitter.jpgAre you twittering yet? What? No!? :shock: Twitter has gotten A LOT of traction as a new micro-blogging tool as it was utilized by attendees to the SXSW (South by Southwest) music/media tech. conference to keep their friends up to date with their current status and location. Twitter’s approach is very simple. It asks you what you are doing and gives you 140 characters with which to answer. You can post via twitter.com, or by SMS from your cell phone and can see what your friends are up to via the same methods. Twitter officially launched last summer, but it wasn’t until the past few months that it started to receive significant publicity or coverage.

There are a few tools that have already emerged to enhance your twitter experience and usage. Twitterriffic for Macs and a new tool called Twitteroo both allow you to “tweet” directly from your desktop. You can also submit posts via IM, however due to recent explosive growth IM is currently down as they are having touble keeping up. I’m personally using twitter to keep my status up-to-date and is visible in the sidebar of my blog.

If you’re a librarian and are using twitter, I’d really like to share ideas and hear your thoughts. We’re in an era where libraries have access to an almost unlimited set of new tools and resources (many free) to help reach out to our users. Creativity is a must due to all of the “competition”! Feel free to contact me or IM (see homepage)!

I think the best tool to help people best understand twitter is to visit Twittervision, a Google Maps mash up, where you can see submissions from around the world in real time. Hope you can read 精心策劃的乾杯!

And yes, I heard you wondering, twitter is fully RSS capable and compliant! See this article over at Webware for some additional tools and tips.

March 28, 2007 | Filed Under Internet, Mobile Tech 

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