Twittering

My extended Twitter page
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Twitter, the social networking website that allows people to communicate with friends, family etc in short text messages answering the question 'What are you doing?'. You can send tweets via your mobile phone, instant messaging tools and using the simple but effective website.

Evan Williams the founder of Blogger has found this simple yet effective website for family and friends to keep in touch.

Not only are family and friends using this service but politicians are now using Social Networking tools to attract the younger generation. It was used widely in the American US Presidental campaign along with other Social Networking tools. Our own Prime Minister and Leader of the Oppposition have their own twitter accounts.

Out of interest Lance Armstrong is a regular user of the service and fans of him knew when approximately he would arrive in Australia as he had not sent a Tweet in severeal hours.

How you could adapt this to a Library I am not entirely sure, but it looks to be the way of the future in the current atmosphere.