Twitter continued...

Lazytweet: This sounds like a better idea....Apparently, just by adding "lazytweet" to your question, it may be answered, without having to sign up to Twitter! I would really view any information with great caution.

Searching Twitter

(1) Tweepsearch:I understand that one can find people on Twitter either by location or by name.

So, location :"New Zealand, Auckland" or by name "name: ****". No results.

Searches can be combined,

" location: auckland name: *****". In spite of changing the option to New Zealand in ChirpCity, the only results were from the USA.

I was wondering if the user had to join Twitter first to find people or whether the person you are trying to find also has to join?

(2) Again, using Tweepsearch, I searched for John Key in Vietnam in both basic and advanced search. I knew he had 70 photos of his recent trip from the first Twitter search.

Eventually, I entered "John Key in Vietnam" in the searchbox and lots of unrelated images came up although containing both search terms eg John Lennon, low key guy etc.

Any information regarding both these unsuccessful searches will be gratefully received!

(3) Twazzup - The best feature of twitter is "news as it happens" so I entered "All Blacks" hoping for the latest score (not that Im the slightest interested in rugby!). One very uninteresting sentance came up, followed by a rant about a majority white jury in a court case in L.A. As Twitter is limited to only 140 characters, I found it difficult to understand what it was all about.

I assume that once you join (and/or have the time) you can access all the related tweets and follow the links to their home page to find out whats it all about. As Twitter deals with a social networking environment only, I would preferably use Google to search for results.

Introduction to twitter

I was surprised to see twitters attributed to certain authors actually have other people twittering for them. Some tweets are VERY boring (thank goodness they are restricted to only 140 characters!) but some could be quite interesting.Some tweets do not make much sense due to this restriction but apparently if you subscribe you can access the information more fully. The use of '#' is a very good idea for a quick reference to themes instead of having to wade through lots of twits' tweets (hahahha).



Meg Cabots' tweet had some very banal entries - but also a very interesting one about Olivia who is doing drawings of birds to sell to raise money for the Gulf coast birds affected by the oilspill.

John Keys' tweet appears to be about self-promotion and events.

Regarding our library, this would be a good way for our library users to view reviews of our latest books if we didn't have a link to them on our librarys home page.

I did enjoy the information available from"grabaseat", "NZ history online" and "cookbook via twitter" even though the recipes did appear to be written in Yiddish!