Thing 27 Twitter

I will just come out it: I love Twitter. I love it more than my blog, I love it more than my RSS feeds, I love it more than Facebook. So there.

I signed up for Twitter during the first round of Things, and puttered around with it, but I didn't really see the need to continue with it until I got connected with two GREAT women who keep me up to date on library matters. Both Tweet in very different ways. One (http://twitter.com/mlrethlefsen) is someone I worked with during an internship early in my library life, the other (http://twitter.com/elloyd74) is a library cartoonist that I adore. One keeps me informed on the new things she investigates as a tech librarian extraordinaire, and what she is currently eating instead of lunch. The other links to current social awareness topics, and with a very wry sense of humor, sums up all that is goofy about working in a library.

If it weren't for these two women, I don't know that I would have continued to post myself. I don't know if anyone finds what I have to say interesting (since I have lost a couple of people already, I would say I need to work on that) but I keep trying to add content as well as just my status. There are friends that Tweet occasionally, and I love hearing from them also, but it is that nebulous world of friends that are also professionals-in-common where Twitter really shines.

I am also very selective about who I follow. I will friend most anyone who friends me on Facebook, but I don't follow everyone who follows me on Twitter. I'm still trying to figure out how much I can follow and still enjoy. Right now I think I'm only up to 11 people that I am following, although I added a couple graphic novel accounts in the process of re-evaluating for this post. We'll see how long they last.