Why I Love Twitter

Presented by Melissa Kiser

Information Technology Librarian,

Allen County Public Library

September 16, 2008

A little about @mekiser

Melissa KiserTechnology LibrarianAllen County Public Library

Began working in libraries in 1982 as a shelver

MSLS from University of Kentucky, 1987

Children’s librarian 1988-1995

Branch manager 1995-2008 IT librarian February 2008

to present

What is Twitter?

http://wordle.net/

Microblogging

Updates

Conversations

It’s FAST

It’s searchable (finally)

Share

Breaking news

Networking

Backchannel at events

Who uses Twitter?

Over a million users Total active users = 200,000 per week Total messages = 3 million per day

Organizations

Airports

News & weather

Government

Libraries can:Send updates to followers’ phones

Libraries can:Feed it into a website

Libraries can:Announce programs or other special announcements

Follow me and I’ll follow you. http://www.twitter.com/mekiser