Twitter is a great social medium for academics.<\/p>\n
Really: My presence on Twitter over these past three years has given me\u00a0a few research ideas, it has allowed me to meet a number of like-minded academics I would otherwise not have met, and it has given\u00a0my research more attention from other researchers and policy makers\u00a0than it otherwise would have received.<\/p>\n
In short, Twitter is an excellent means of keeping one’s thumb on the pulse of one’s interests–in my case, agriculture, development, and food policy.<\/p>\n
The foregoing is true most of the time. Sometimes, Twitter is where hope goes to die<\/del> simply maddening. I will simply leave this exchange — which I had last Thursday on Twitter — here for posterity, without any further comment. Just know that the first tweet was responding to someone who was saying that she was now consuming an all- (or maybe it was mostly) organic diet–and that my last tweet in this exchange went unanswered.<\/p>\n