Spring is in the Air: Can't you hear the Tweeting?!

#si643 takes to the Twitter streams this week! I have to say, I'm new to Twitter but I'm loving it! Microblogging is a lot of fun, easy, and fast to get your thoughts out there and share cool news. It's been great being able to follow librarians and see the conversations they are apart of. It's also been great seeing what everyone is class is finding.

So, one thing I've noticed that I really like about Twitter is how it is pretty easy to pick up. At first, I'll be honest, I didn't really know what a hashtag was. If I were to use a hashtag for my knowledge about hashtags it would be: #clueless. I didn't realize that they linked you to other posts where people also used that hashtag. Which is really fun and really cool.

I also really like how easy it is to share articles that you have found or retweeted with other people. I can see this being a great tool for keeping up-to-date with everything in libraryland, and it is all there on one site, and quick headliners. With my attention span, this is great! I would like it to be a little bit more organized. I'm still figuring out what everything does, but I'm glad we had to start using it!

So far I've been following YALSA, School Library Journal, ALA, DML (they are probably one of my favorite tweetters. I love their articles!), and librarians like Buffy Hamilton and David Lee King. I also really like the suggestions it comes up with for who to follow. I have a feeling though, I'll probably actively manage who I follow. Some librarians really enjoy sharing personal life things, that I'll be honest, I'm not that interested. I'll just consider who I follow on Twitter like a little collection that I'll actively develop through collecting and weeding #suchalibrarian.

Feel free to tweet at me or follow: @kmaforester