[LINK] USDAFoodSafety is using Twitter.

[Stilgherrian]

On 30/03/2009, at 10:36 AM, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
> The <http://www.usda.gov> seem to have chosen Twitter in preference  
> to providing
> an RSS feed. Perhaps it says more about the Governance of ICT within  
> the
> organisation - than suitability of Twitter. Maybe Twitter was  
> achievable by
> bypassing the organisation. Certainly Youtube, Facebook and Myspace  
> have been
> used as "free" options.


The thing about using Twitter is that by adding your links via a tweet  
into the one messaging system, you get a whole raft of access methods  
-- web, Twitter clients, RSS, API calls into the Twitter database, SMS  
and then through third-party add-ons email etc etc.

You also have the "social sharing" aspect of people being able to  
retweet your stuff with a single click.

The low-overhead thing is really important and often overlooked. It's  
key to why information spreads so fast using Twitter. That and the  
fact that everyone's networks overlap with each other serendipitously.

Stil


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