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Introduction
Twitter is a free Microblogging service that allows you to compose blog posts of 140 characters or less via:
- Twitter's web interface
- SMS (text messages from your cell phone)
- instant messaging (send messages from selected
- third-party applications
People may follow your posts via:
- Twitter's web interface
- SMS (text messages from your cell phone)
- instant messaging (send messages from selected
- third-party applications
- in a feed reader (your posts generate a unique RSS feed)
Libraries using Twitter
- Ada Library (Idaho) adalib
- Alaska State Library akstatelibrary
- Allegheny County Libraries (Pennsylvania) aclalibraries
- Ann Arbor District Library (Michigan) aadl
- Arapahoe Library District Teens (Colorado) ald_teens
- Barrington Area Library's Teen Zone (Illinois) BALTeenZone
- Casa Grande Library (Arizona) cglibrary
- Cita Dennis Hubbell Branch Library (Louisiana) hubbell
- Cleveland Public Library (Ohio) Cleveland_PL
- Danbury (Connecticut) danburylibrary
- Denver Public Library (Colorado) denverlibrary
- Duke University Reference Dept. (North Carolina) askref
- Free Library of Philadelphia FreeLibrary
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Michigan) grpl
- Grand Rapids Public Library Teen Dept (Michigan) grplteens
- Hamon Arts Library, Southern Methodist University (Texas) hamonarts
- Henry Country Library (Kentucky) hcpl
- Kansas City Public Library (Missouri) KCPubLibrary
- Learn and Serve America's National Service-Learning Clearinghouse (California) NSLC
- Lester Public Library (Wisconsin) lesterpublic
- Library of Congress (Washington, DC) librarycongress
- Lunar and Planetary Institute Library (Texas) LPI_Library
- Missouri River Regional Library (Missouri) mrrl
- Monroe County Public Library System (New York) MCLS
- Nebraska Library Commission NLC_Reference
- Maryland AskUsNow! askusnow
- Norlin Library (Colorado) [1]
- North Tonawanda Public Library Children's Department(New York) ntlibrarykids
- Peace Palace Library, peacepalace
- Penn State University Libraries, psulibs
- Penrose Library, University of Denver (Colorado) dupenrose
- Plymouth District Library (Michigan) PlymouthDL
- Providence Public Library (Rhode Island) provlib
- Regents Center Library-University of Kansas at Edwards Campus, LibraryKUEC
- Roanoke County Public Library (Virginia) RoCoPubLib
- Santa Fe Public Library sfpl
- Skokie Public Library, skokielibrary
- South Carolina State Library, scstatelibrary
- UIUC Undergraduate Library (Illinois) askundergrad
- UC Berkeley Data Lab ucdatalab
- UC Berkeley Doe/Moffitt Technology Training (dmtech) dmtech
- UMass Amherst Learning Commons umasslc
- Vancouver Public Library (BC Canada) VPL
- Washington-Centerville Public Library (Ohio) washcentlibrary
- West Springfield Public Library (Massachusetts) WSPLEvents
- Yale Science Libraries (Connecticut) yalescilib
More Info on Twitter
- Twitter Fan Wiki An unofficial wiki dedicated to all things Twitter.
- Twitter Support: FAQ
- Twittering Libraries article written fall 2008 LIS 5313 course by Lindy Brown, a MLIS student at Florida State University's College of Information
