Twitter

In amongst our more serious joined-up activities, one of our partner libraries asked us for a 'first contact' session on Twitter . We did this earlier this week. I wonder if any of the many readers of this blog have looked at Twitter? It did very well on the 'cool' rating (9/10) although this was noted as "massive waste of spare time" cool (especially in the Twittervision mode) rather than "useful" cool.

However, other first contact ratings were poor (2/10 for ease of registering; 2/10 for ease of use as rated by group relying on product / site information; 6/10 for ease of use as rated by group relying on first contact guidance notes produced locally for session; 3/10 for speed of operation / changes). Colleagues also separately trialled two plug-ins Twitteroo (3/10 overall feel) and Twitteriffic (7/10). If Twitter survives [ how Web 2.0 !!] and our partner library detects continuing use, then we will take it to 'established contact' level and ask Ian Hay if we could hire him as a 'mentor buddy'. He has already kindly commented on recent sustainability / outage concerns.