I am not a fan. While I can see that some teachers find Tweeting as a way to gain support from other teachers, I feel that I need more than 140 characters from someone in a different country. I hate Facebook because it seems that everyone feels the need to post the most mundane details of their lives and Twitter seems to me to be just as meaningless. I have joined and will follow my two people and, who knows, I may be surprised. I will try to keep an open mind.
One of the secrets is to find people who don't give you that level of detail but use it mainly to share professional resources they have found. I can't stand it when people tell me where they are sitting and having coffee. I do like the tweets that send me to a useful resources. For my profession, I follow the ALA TechSource as it keeps me up to date on technologies in libraries.
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