Twitter is the latest social networking tool to rise to the top of the hype cycle. Celebrities, businesses, politicians....everybody seems to be jumping on the bandwagon. And apparently, just as many are jumping off pretty quickly after they try it out. Here's and interesting article by Howard Rheingold that does a good job of explaining what Twitter is all about and how to make it work.
According to Rheingold, using Twitter effectively is all about media literacy:
"Twitter is one of a growing breed of part-technological, part-social communication media that require some skills to use productively. Sure, Twitter is banal and trivial, full of self-promotion and outright spam. So is the Internet. The difference between seeing Twitter as a waste of time or as a powerful new community amplifier depends entirely on how you look at it - on knowing how to look at it...successful use of Twitter means knowing how to tune the network of people you follow, and how to feed the network of people who follow you."
Read the full article.
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