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- Exploring the Potential of Twitter as a Research Tool Ovadia, Steven Feedback (Response) Research Tools Popular Culture Outreach Programs Social Sciences Electronic Publishing Web Sites Researchers Behavioral Science Research Behavioral Sciences Social Science Research Users (Information) Librarians Teacher Researchers Computer Networks Social Networks Computer Mediated Communication Synchronous Communication Twitter (www.twitter.com) has become kind of a popular culture punch line. It's often used as a shorthand to represent how self-obsessed and self-involved the American culture has become, and while Twitter does lend itself to a kind of needless sharing, it also has some potentially useful features. Twitter is a microblogging service that allows users to post and read 140-character status messages. These short bursts of information, called tweets, can be anything from what someone had for lunch to feedback on a live event, like a presidential press conference. Much of the library literature focuses on Twitter as either a patron outreach tool or as a way to collect patron feedback. However, Twitter offers some functionality that might be especially helpful to librarians in the behavioral and social sciences--functionality that could also prove helpful to faculty researching and/or teaching within those disciplines. This article highlights the tremendous potential of Twitter as a research tool.