No, I’m not going to bitch about how "twitter’s always down". If it’s up, I tweet. If it’s not, I don’t. I’ve learned to get over it. However, if you’ve just got to post that tweet while twitter’s down and you’ve got Web access, head over to twitabit. Give it your twitter login info, write your post, and send it off. Your tweet will be queued and sent along when twitter’s up again.
I’ve noticed that it can take some time for posts to be forwarded along so if your tweet is time sensitive you’re basically back to SOL. Also, it seems like that when you queue several tweets, they’ll be sent to twitter in reverse order. (i.e. Write tweets 1,2,3 and they’ll be posted to twitter in 3,2,1 order.) I’ve not confirmed this so correct me if I’m wrong.
Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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