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Twitter

1. Go to Twitter (http://www.twitter.com) and see what you think, then check out these blog posts, articles and sites for more info on Twitter:
   • Twitter Explained For Librarians (http://www.davidleeking.com/2007/03/10/twtter-explained-for-librarians-or-10-ways-to-use-twitter/)
   • The 12 Minute Definitive Guide To Twitter (http://dev.aol.com/article/2007/04/definitive-guide-to-twitter)
   • Is Twitter Too Good? (http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2007/03/is_twitter_too_.html)
   • More Thoughts On Twitter (http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2007/04/09/more_thoughts_on_twitter.html)
   • Twittering About Second Life (http://librarygarden.blogspot.com/2007/05/twittering-about-second-life.html#links)
   • A Twitter with 'tweets' (http://www.nj.com/starledger/stories/index.ssf?/base/news-11/1179030652309280.xml&coll=1)
   • 10 Rules of Twitter (and How I Break Every One) (http://scobleizer.com/2007/09/23/the-10-rules-of-twitter-and-how-i-break-every-one/) - via Scobleizer
   • Twittermap (http://twittermap.com/maps)
   • Twitterholic (http://www.twitterholic.com/)
   • Twitter Public Timeline (http://twitter.com/public_timeline)
   • 8 Awesome Firefox Plugins For Twitter (http://mashable.com/2007/05/06/8-awesome-firefox-plugins-for-twitter/)
   • TwitterVision (http://twittervision.com/)
2. As you go, add these URLs to your del.icio.us account, and when you're done write a blog post about what you think.
3. Check out these other, similar sites:
   • Jaiku (http://www.jaiku.com/)
   • Pownce (http://www.pownce.com/) - currently in beta, so you'll have to ask to be invited to try it out.

Try It Out

1. Sign up for a Twitter account. Go to Twitter (http://twitter.com) and sign up for an account. It's pretty straightforward, and they don't require a lot of information to sign up. A great post about things that you can do with Twitter is The Several Habits Of Wildly Successful Twitter Users (http://slackermanager.com/2007/03/the-several-habits-of-wildly-successful-twitter-users.html), which gives a lot of ideas about what you can do with Twitter and how you can use it effectively. Some quick things you can do right off the bat are:
   • Put a link to your twitter account in your Wordpress blog. If you have a Blogger blog, put a badge in your sidebar.
   • Check the Twitter public Timeline, and see what people are Twittering. On the right is a box that has some of the main Twitterers. See what they're twittering, and add one or two of them as friends if you think they're interesting.
   • Explore some of the ways you can integrate Twitter into other websites - widgets and sidebars and the like. By now you have a lot of different profiles - see if you can add something Twitter related into one of your other profiles, like MySpace.
   • Check out the article (if you haven't already) 8 Awesome Firefox Plugins For Twitter (http://mashable.com/2007/05/06/8-awesome-firefox-plugins-for-twitter/) and try adding one of those plugins to your Firefox browser. One great add-on is Twitterbar (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4664), which lets you post whatever is in your address bar to Twitter. So, you can post a URL, or you can type a short message there and post it. Nice.
   • To find other users, use a search tool like Twit-Dir (http://www.twitdir.com/) which allows you to search for ID's as well as keywords. I searched for "Library" and got over 100 results.
   • Check out this Libraryclips Roundup (http://libraryclips.blogsome.com/2007/07/19/roundup-flotzam-twitticious-twitterfaces-tw3t-twittermail/) post for more ideas.
   • In Facebook? Join the Librarians Who Twitter (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5825485883).

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