Thing 12: TWITTER

I'm cranking these posts out today. I have a ton of homework to do...

Oh, Twitter, how much I heart thee. I was slow to using Twitter, and I still have to remember to tweet things. I'm not obsessed with gathering followers, and as it is, I don't follow that many people because I feel like I need to read every tweet and more people would mean more tweets.

Twitter is awesome because it's open to anything you want to say in 140 characters or less. It asks, "What are you doing?" but it means, "What are you doing? What are you thinking? What are you reading? What are you eating? What do you want to say to the world?"

My last tweet was about how much I loved the show True Blood (premiered on HBO last night), but that I wished it stuck more to the books. On the side of my home page, I could see that True Blood was the topic of a lot of discussion last night. Today, it's been bumped down by #iranelection, Tehran, and Lakers.

The last thing I heard about Twitter was my own plan for a program to teach parents what it is and why they might want to use it. Unfortunately, a massive thunderstorm cancelled my program, but I hope that we can reschedule it soon. I know there have already been questions from patrons about when we would have it, and that makes me feel really good, like people are realizing that this is something worth knowing about.