Twittering

twitter is a(nother) nice little online-tool for online-collaboration and socializing: Its intention is summarized by one question: “What are you doing?” Well. I’ll use it to answer another question: “What are you reading?” As posts are limited to 14o characters it’s much easier to maintain than a blog. I’ll post short hints to interesting articles I’m currently reading and to stuff that’s not worth a blog-post (yet) there (RSS available).

Background information:

• UMBC: Why We Twitter - Understanding Microblogging Usage and Communities
• MarketingProfs: What Web Marketers Should Know About Twitter
• Brian Oberkirch: Advanced Twitter: Don’t Tweet Like A n00b
• Jeremiah Owyang: Don’t get Twitter? It’s a chat room
• Read/WriteWeb: 10 Micro-Blogging Tools Compared
• Süddeutsche Zeitung: Der Terror des Jetzt