I love Twitter. I love Twitter a lot more than Facebook, because the latter likes to make decisions without my consent. Also, if you have an author page, Facebook doesn?t show your updates to all people who have agreed to see it. No, they only do that if you pay! What utter bullshit.
So I hang out on Twitter much more than Facebook. Everyone and anyone can see your posts. You can see everyone?s.
As author, I?ve found Twitter very useful in a number of ways:
1. Twitter is the most important and foremost source of raw, up-to-date news. I?ve seen pictures of things happening live that were only ever covered in retrospect by the major news services. I?ve seen scandals unfold. I?ve seen original tweets that were later deleted. I have a column called ?News? and a bunch of news services go in there: A couple of science-related people…
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