My favourite thing

I approached Thing 10, Twitter, with trepidation. I live with a family of tweeters. The more they enthused the more I thought this is not for me. I resisted. I turned my back on it. However, I now had to confront it.

I started simply by going through the motions and following the instructions. And then something happened! The instructions were so clear, the results so quick, the composition of the tweet such fun that I was hooked. I started receiving surprised tweets from friends who thought they would never see me on Twitter!

And then when the tweets started pouring in from those people and institutions I had elected to follow I was even more enthused. It was like an instant current awareness service for all of my #favourite things. 

Tweeting in the snow

This photograph which I took of a robin tweeting in the snow reminds me of an artists' book I made entitled 'Small animals' as part of an exhibition Librarians' books.

I am not sure how much I will tweet but I do love checking in. However, this afternoon I saw a story on libraries in crisis that might interest my followers so I tweeted about it.

I like the challenge of writing to 140 characters. I have learnt how to add in URLs, photos and links and have even created my own #hashtags, but I am yet to re-tweet.

This is definitely something which I will now be using beyond 23things.