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Sunday, 22 March 2009 |
You can now follow Blogscholar on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/blogscholar and Blogscholar founding director Chris Brauer at http://www.twitter.com/chrisbrauer.
Many academics indicate that blogging takes too much time away from core activities of teaching and research. But is anyone really so busy they can't spare 140 characters or less to communicate an idea?
Every year a new technology sets itself apart from the crowd. 2008 was the year of the tweet. The latest numbers from Neilson Online indicate Twitter quite literally grew exponentially - up 1,382% worldwide year-over-year in February and up 974% in the UK over that period.
People draw comparisons with micro-blogging or Facebook status but to really understand Twitter you have to try it. I think we always suspected academics were a bunch of tweets anyway.
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