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The National Youth Agency: Comment - Life is tweet with arrival of Twitter

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Wikipedia describes Twitter as "a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other users' updates known as tweets." Twitter has turned my working day upside down.

No longer do I trawl through weighty email communications from organisations whose agenda and ideologies we share here at The National Youth Agency (NYA). Instead I simply sift their latest Tweets. A couple of daily scans give updates in snapshots - enough to digest quickly and links to follow if I need them.

The value of Twitter comes from how you choose to participate. In my view it's not about what you contribute to it but who you choose to follow within it. I use my work account to constantly graze for information - news that's relevant for my work, current, up to date - it feeds me snippets of information on all manner of topics that I can follow up if I want to.

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