So I set up a Twitter account but donât really know what it is useful for (if anything). Feel free to follow if you want. More importantly, comment here and let me know what Twitter is useful for.
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I'll be at Science Online Together for the next few days. I missed last year so I'm really looking forward to getting back into the Science Online swing of things.
Twitter is about to ruin itself.
On Twitter, things can be fast and unpredictable. Like yesterday. I was having an interesting discussion with @jason_pontin about the changing role of quoting sourses in Old vs.
It all started with this innocent little tweet from @seelix:
In going through the twitter list, I believe that half the #scio12 people are either a librarian, a marine scientist or named Emily.
Ya know how, when you're in the lab you can look across the room and see what your buddy is doing? When you're at home you know what the kids are doing (some of the time, anyway)? It's like that, only from much farther away.
Except you have to do the "telling what you are doing" part yourself.
Twitter is useful like your facebook status. You can put something witty to let your friends and family know you are three sheets to the wind or that you just stubbed your toe.
I use twitter to share links, pictures, and chronicle my day. Little journal entries less than 140 characters long. My grandma even has twitter.
Your question answered here:
http://wheresmyjetpack.blogspot.com/2009/01/tweet-your-breakfast_01.html
It, and the associated time sucks like facebook, is useful for sucking away valuable time telling the world trivial little bits of information. Of course, since so few grants are being funded these days, Ill probably have time for twitter in a few more months....
Twitter is useful for . . . Uh. what ?
organizing flash mobs ?