Six Reasons I’m Glad I Caved Inand started using Twitter

Ned Potter | www.thewikiman.org

Networking

Not just the traditional online social networking kind, either. If you’ve chatted with someone on Twitter, your relationship gets a head-start when you meet face-to-face.

Links, links, links

I get countless links about stuff I’m interested in, from people who know a lot more than I do…

Asking questions

Sometimes Google isn’t enough. I can ask a question and get an informed response more-or-less instantly, from people I trust.

Promotion

I can promote LIS-related events directly to people who might actually want to go to them, and a significant amount of traffic to my blog is generated via Twitter links.

Gauging consensus

Twitter is a great tool for getting a sense of how people are feeling about emerging trends, new technologies etc.

Listening in

When two (or more) people you follow are conversing on Twitter you are shown their tweets – this leads to all sorts of serendipitous discovery of information and ideas!

The copyright bit: Images were either Flickr creative commons (Networking - GustavoG...; Links - Ravages; Asking questions - Oberazzi; Consensus gauging - Redgum; and Listening in – abrinsky ) or Photfunia creations of my own (this one, and Promotion).

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