[Web4lib] Who should I follow? - Twitter

[Laura Krier]

I'd recommend adding some comedians, actors, musicians, and people of
interest to the general public to the list. I personally love Rainn
Wilson, Stephen Colbert, and Michael Ian Black (comedians), and
Amateur Gourmet, David Lebovitz, Marion Nestle, and Evan Kleiman
(cooks and food bloggers). Chances are most library patrons aren't
going to be that interested in following librarians.

Laura

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 7:46 AM, R. Wood <rw at ncf.ca> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 09:58:43AM -0500, Wilfred Drew stated:
>> In an attempt to help participants in a webinar about Twitter that I
>> did yesterday, I have created a webpage of people, libraries, and
>> organizations that may serve as a good place to start following on
>> Twitter.  It is very subjective and includes people and libraries that
>> have told me they are willing to be followed and  willing to help
>> others learn to use Twitter.  I am still adding to the page. The page
>> is at http://sites.google.com/site/scrlctwitter/who-should-i-follow-
>> or short URL - http://bit.ly/6fxmUN .
>>
>> The website I created for the webinar is at
>> http://sites.google.com/site/scrlctwitter/home .  It is open for the
>> world to use and will be subject to change as I see fit.
>>
>> Enjoy.
>> Wilfred (Bill) Drew, M.S., B.S., A.S.
>
> As a matter of interest, there is a FOSS[1] alternative to Twitter at
> http://identi.ca
>
> The community is smaller than twitter and tends to focus on more
> technical/techie topics (though not exclusively).  There are also
> mechanisms to propogate tweets to Identica (where they are referred to
> as 'dents' ;-) and possibly vice versa
>
> If you have any interest in supporting FOSS, I highly recommend having a
> look at Identica.
>
> [1] Free and Open Source Software
>
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