Students procrastinating in the library and Brown administrators may now speak in the same character-limited language: Twitter.

Twitter, a kind of miniature blogging service that allows people to update their friends, or "followers," on their lives in "tweets" of 140 characters or fewer, was recently taken up by the University as an experiment in public relations.

Among University-related feeds now on Twitter are "brownuniversity," which automatically provides links to news from Media Relations, Brown Alumni Magazine, Today at Brown and Brown.edu Web sites, and "MHollmer," a life sciences-themed Twitter run by Mark Hollmer, senior media specialist in the Life Sciences.

Full Story: Spring is near: Brown tweets toward Web 2.0 Source: Brown Daily Herald, February 10th, 2009 Author: Lauren Pischel Added on February 10th, 2009 at 11:17 am, by Matt Mikula