Twitter has been mentioned before on this blog, notably in the post about social media in the art world but I’ve never given it more than a passing reference. Given the questions, comments and small amount of confusion that seem to surround this particular aspect of social media, I thought it would be sensible to explain a little bit about it and its place in the art world.

People communicate through Twitter in sentences of only 140 characters or fewer, but other than that ‘tweeting’ – sending a message on Twitter – is very like updating your Facebook status or sending an SMS. Anyone [...]