David Lee King » Blog Archive » Twtter Explained for Librarians, or 10 ways to use Twitter
“Think of Twitter like a personal IM account that can be shared with everyone. Once you have a Twitter account set up, you can send short IM, SMS, or web-based messages to Twitter. Others who are marked as your friends or followers receive those messages. And there’s a public timeline that displays everything everyone is texting (there’s also an option to keep messages private, and to send messages only to individuals, which triggers an email).”
(read on at the URL above)
Thanks to Debra Hamel for the alert — and see the “twitter” bar at the top of Debra’s blog.
