Twitter

 

I am now a huge fan of In Plain English Videos! This one on Twitter is great; Lee LeFever does a witty job delivering information simply and quickly. He explains Twitter in under 3 minutes; and all with a sense of humor! I'm sure he is famous for all his In Plain English Videos - I am going to look for all of them. Here is the link to the one on twitter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddO9idmax0o&feature=relmfu

So, about Twitter; I don't understand why people would want to share information about their daily (boring!) activities. Why would you want to know what people are doing 24/7? Twitter is dumb...who cares if you are drinking a cup of coffee, or doing laundry, or reading a book? And all of those people begging to be following. How ironic...the video talks about sharing information with people you care about, yet people you don't know are begging you to follow their daily lives...No thanks!

How to use Twitter in libraries; I think you can accomplish getting out the "breaking news" better with a blog or Facebook. Daily life is just too mundane to be tweeted about. So are all people who tweet, twitter twats?