Archive of tweet mentions, questions, and replies

Twitter ~ once a day at http://twitter.com/mitlibraries.  Content ideas:

• tweet a photo and ask people to "Name that library!"
• tweet about or take a photo of cool collections people like (tweet a photo of yearbooks and send link to Barton record; tweet about travel collection)
• tweet about MIT spotlights and lib resources for them
• tweet about our good video tutorials
• tweet about Ellen's podcast series
• tweet about server downtime and other real time events
• ask users questions or what they think?
• tell people things they wouldn't have known otherwise
• our recent survey showed that people don't know about XXX service, did you?
• frame things in terms of user needs and how we can help them
• twitter new LibGuides
• twitter some cool photos that we have on Flickr
• twitter about our staff and what they do (non-work)
• Possibly twitter about other depts. at MIT and what they are doing

Things to try if we have the time:

• http://cotweet.comhttp://cotweet.com/
• Ifttt.com
• Hootsuite
• Tweetdeck

• If we ever manage Twitter by a group: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/birdherd_another_option_for_teams_groups_using_twi.php

Ways to track stats on followers & tweets: (from http://andyburkhardt.com/2009/09/28/how-to-track-your-librarys-social-media-stats/ )

• TweetStats
• Twitter Counter

To backup tweets, try:

• "Backup-ify" Twitter
• http://twistory.net/
• http://tweetbackup.com/
• http://johannburkard.de/blog/programming/java/backup-twitter-tweets-with-twitterbackup.html