I have never twittered and after reading the information about it, I don't think I ever will. I don't just find it hard to do myself. I also find it too much work to figure out what people are saying with those little bits of information. I admit I'm from a different generation and that may be part of the problem, but I do love technology. For me the issue is that I love words and reading well written books, information, etc. Twittering is the opposite of well written. It is meant to be shorthand. Anyone who has ever written in shorthand can tell you that it can't take the place of true writing, and it is fairly hard to communicate with it because everyone must understand your shorthand.
The things I can see it being useful for would be if you are in a hurry and need to communicate something quickly. How that could be applied in a library I'm not quite sure.
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I agree with you. It is true that the telephone really killed off the art of letter writing. E mail and the other forms of computer communication did bring back writing again, but, sadly, it is more analogous to writing a quick post card rather than a well composed and written letter. Oh look at the time, gotta run.
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