Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Twitter support for libraries snowballs worldwide | Books | guardian.co.uk

Twitter support for libraries snowballs worldwide | Books | guardian.co.uk

A simple tweet from a Shropshire ICT lecturer musing on libraries while doing her laundry of a Sunday morning resulted in the hashtag #savelibraries trending worldwide yesterday.

"Libraries are important because ... [fill in your answer & RT] #savelibraries", Mar Dixon tweeted. More than 5,000 people responded spontaneously to her invitation, which was retweeted by, among others, Margaret Atwood and Neil Gaiman.

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