Recently I have really got into using twitter, I think not only can it while away a long train / bus journey but after chatting to a number of people I also found that it can be far more than the fairly vacuous past time of browsing facebook. I found of the people that were following me, a lot actually really did read the updates and were interested. This lead me to think about the real possibilities of using twitter for more serious business-like reasons, such as promoting radio / production goods and services but also using it as a research tool for the PhD. There are plenty of people tweeting out there on all manner of different subjects and using the search engine on tweetie I can follow them. This has already lead me on a fascinating journey around the web reading articles and journals I would never have known existed, up to Twitter I say 