Twitter

The first thing that got my attention when I went to look at what Twitter was about was the description. I personally wouldn’t go to Twitter to look up “…breaking news, a local traffic jam, a deal at your favorite shop or a funny pick-me-up from a friend.” From what I have heard about Twitter, I do know that there are those that seem to like to share every aspect of what they are doing every minute of the day by sharing their “tweets,” but I don’t get the whole point of why. Don’t get me wrong, I think that it is great that the public library is on Twitter and realize that it is a great way to inform people of what is going on at the various branches. It is a great way to get that kind of information out to people. I thought it was great to see the various branches that have Twitter and to be able to see what each branch actually posted on their Twitter page. I personally don’t see myself ever using Twitter, but can see where the attraction for some people is. I did have an account set up at one point in time to follow someone who was going to be on vacation at the same resort that I was going to. The only reason, I joined was to see what he had to say while he was at this resort. For the most part, I found that I did not find the information that he posted to be of use. I also found that when I did have a Twitter account, it was not user friendly. (I think that a lot of it may have been me, but I’m not completely convinced of this.) I did eventually get rid of this account as I did not find much use for it and I didn’t really use it for much at that time. Do I see myself using Twitter in the future, not really. To be honest, I don’t really understand what the fascination for some things on Twitter are. I can see it being used for things like CPL posting things that are going on at each branch, but besides that, I don’t really see a use for it.