It's been pointed out to me that I've had a comment. I think the commenter (or is that commentator?) may have missed my point (which isn't surprising since I didn't really explain it). Quite apart from the rather silly name, a lot of us have experience of twitter like activity. After all, even my mother sends text messages when she needs to.
The problem I see with twitter is the limit on characters - 140 isn't really enough for any serious communication. Recently I've had to send an email message to a fellow of Peterhouse explaining why the stack request system in the UL has to work the way it does; that couldn't be explained in less than 560 words, or more than 3000 characters, and a few weeks ago I sent a letter to Skoda commenting on their apparent inability to allow people to test drive cars that people might actually want to drive. It had to go as a letter because the comments form on their website had a limit of 1,000 characters.
Iain
P.S. Like the penguins.
ReplyDeleteHello - another comment! I agree Twitter with an individual enquiry, but it might be useful for (a) following information from others who work in the same subject specialism or area of librarianship, and (b) keeping your followers posted with this information, adding your own insights and updates. Just a thought.
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