Consider setting up a separate account from your personal Twitter account if you’re using Twitter for research. Advantages include the following:
• Tweets about what your best friend ate for breakfast, wore to the movies last night, or is watching on YouTube won’t obscure the latest tweets from your research subject and vice versa.
• You can focus on friends or research without the other interrupting by having only one account open.
• You can keep an eye on both Twitter accounts with a multiple-account enabled app, like Tweet3 (and hopefully TweetDeck, et al. will see the importance of this soon).
• If you need to save tweets (e.g., using Tweetbook http://tweetbook.in), you won’t then have to sort through the pdf or xml so much to find what you need.
Twitter Research 2
May 13, 2009 by emmephoenix
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