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Houston Cole Library, 9th floor, Science and Medicine

All A-Twitter?

Well, if you are, the book for you just arrived in the library. Even though it is not shelved on the 9th floor, but the 4th, I am writing about it because of my interest in Twitter and microblogging. Twitter allows users to express their thoughts or update followers on their status in a succinct 140 characters. Links, photos and other media may also be shared. Twitter users follow other users, and are followed. My username is p9hcl, and my feed is to the right of the page, under the photo and  Facebook badge.

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O’Reilly, Tim and Sarah Milstein, The Twitter Book, O’Reilly Media, 2009.
HM742.O74x 2009

Seeing the book reminded me of an Unshelved comic strip. Click to view full size on the Unshelved site.

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Filed under: alerts, books, Library, online social networks, twitter

In Case You Wondered

Librarians often get asked how to cite sources in paper bibliographies. I am blogging this in order to have it somewhere handy with the other esoteric bits of information that I just might need.

How to cite Twitter posts in APA style. Moondragon has written a post about this subject here.  Just in case …

Filed under: twitter, Web 2.0

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