Twitter: a pretext to investigate

Abstract

The specialized information available on the web is diverse, immense, and dynamic. In this context, social networks have become a very efficient communication tool. Twitter is one of the most used platforms to generate, exchange and process information on biodiversity due to its versatility, friendliness, brevity, immediacy and efficiency. This digital ecosystem is free and gathers quality information generated by specialists and entities open to communication. In this text I briefly explain how it works, I share tips and ways of interacting; I present some examples of accounts, lists, labels; and other functions to access information on biodiversity in real time, to collect and save it. All this makes Twitter an ideal application for both research and higher education, because it contains rich, vast and up-to-date information, since it brings students, researchers and teachers closer together in an entertaining and interactive way, and because it is an infinite source of data, information and knowledge, which allows users to live the experience of conversations about real science, in addition to participating, interacting and being read. See you on Twitter!

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