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Let me add @DigNeurosurgeon to that list!

Sorry Joel, you can call me an old fogie (or worse, if you want), but unless I hear Timothy McVeigh yelling from where he is, "Hey, it's snowing," I won't be using Twitter (or FaceBook, or MySpace, or even LinkedIn)...

Kevin

I'm on the fence regarding Twitter's value, but so far I've found that lurking while following interesting people who point to thought provoking or valuable things on the interwebs has been beneficial. Follow me at @hatchethead and I'll retweet the interesting things I learn.

Jason Miller, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Mathematics

Kyle,

First off, this is a sincere question and not a flame ... I'm obviously anti-Twitter. Do you really think that someone I don't even know and have never even heard of saying "If you're not using it you should" is going to make me rush to fire it up?

If you want me to use it you're going to have to do better than that. No one has yet said one thing that would even make me halfway consider using Twitter. Here's your chance to be the first. Again, posting this in sincerity...

Kevin

I am a Mac-loving postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University who studies enzyme dynamics via NMR: modernscientist

I have to admit, I was skeptical about Twitter when everyone first started talking about it. However, I've found that by following the right people I'm now catching important information I was missing before. Short, important updates via Twitter have taken the place of blog posts for many people. Developers in particular are able to share a lot of tips via the service.

When you add in public conversations I've had with people distributed around the globe, Twitter has become an indispensable tool for me.

I'm on as @bradlarson.

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Brad Larson, Ph.D.
Sunset Lake Software ( www.sunsetlakesoftware.com )

Kevin,
Good point I should have been more verbose. When I first heard of twitter I thought to myself why in the world would I need more noise in my life. But the more I heard about the more I was interested so I decided to give it a try. There is a lot of noise on twitter, but there are also many nuggets (of gold) if you know how to find them which definitely make it worth the time. For example being able to follow people you would never be able to have direct access to is one nugget. Case in point I’m able to follow Tim Ferriss who does a good job of providing valuable tidbits on entrepreneurism which may not merit a full blog entry on his blog and I may not have found out about unless I was able to have a conversation with him. Also I’m able to get instant news and updates using the search feature. Another case in point is yesterday when reddit when down I was able to confirm that it just wasn’t my connection by doing a search on for reddit and finding other tweets confirming my suspicion. As a member of the community I try to “give back” nuggets to help/inform others who may have had the same problem I’ve had (computer wise that is). Like anything though it’s what you make of it and what you want to get out of it.
Regards,
Kyle

I think it would be great to have a twitter based community of scientists. It would allow us to quickly exchange knowledge. You can find me @asutton.

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Aaron Sutton
Ph.D. Student - Condensed Matter Physics
University of Toronto