I read the twitter articles to familiarize myself with what twitter was, before I dove in & created an account. I figured out how to tweet a few times, how to follow 3 tweeters, and how to get my photo downloaded into my Profile. But I tried on 2 different days to use the "Search" feature to search for a particular person and also to search for mentions of my library. Both days, I was greeted by a screen saying that that feature was temporarily disabled. So no luck there!
I'm not a fan of twitter just yet. I always try to think of something positive about each new technology, but I have to agree with another classmate's comment that I just don't see the need to share random thoughts with people. I'm sure they have better things to do with their time than to follow a miscellaneous tidbit from me. Anyway, I guess I feel that I have better things to do with my precious, limited time than to follow someone's random thoughts. But I kind of liked the NLC Reference one. Those are real questions that need answering. So I could maybe see twitter being used as a reference service in my library. But on a personal level--- it probably isn't going to happen.
P.S. HOW did some of you overachievers change the look of your blog background to be something personal? All I saw were ready-made templates to choose from?
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Hi Rita,
I've run into the same problem trying to use the "search" function within Twitter. Try this instead and see if it works better: http://search.twitter.com/
Regarding your P.S.: I got my new background here. If you click on one of the backgrounds, you will get step-by-step instructions. Note: It tells you which of the Blogger templates you have to switch your blog to before applying their background. I found this site after looking at Seeryus 2.0's blog, but I know there are others out there too.
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