Twitter at work

There are numerous studies about how Twitter can be used in work and education. The study below integrated Twitter feeds into a corporate wiki. Some people found that Twitter had value where neither email nor IM seemed appropriate.
Zhao, X. et al (2011) "Integrating Twitter into Wiki to Support Informal Awareness." Proceedings of the ACM 2011 conference on Computer supported cooperative work. New York: ACM. pp733-736

Twtter Explained for Librarians, or 10 ways to use Twitter | David Lee King

http://www.davidleeking.com/2007/03/10/twtter-explained-for-librarians-or-10-ways-to-use-twitter/

Twtter Explained for Librarians, or 10 ways to use Twitter | David Lee King

Article about libraries and Twitter

http://www.talis.com/panlibus/pdfs/Panlibus_13.pdf

The article is on p18-19. Patel, D. (2009) "Twitter a tool to manage enquiries in libraries". Panilus, (13), 18-19

Twitter #lovelibraries

http://twitter.com/#!/search/%23lovelibraries

Example of a topic that you can monitor

Twitter / scotlibraries

http://twitter.com/scotlibraries

Twitter stream for Scottish Library & Information Council & CILIP Scotland

Basics of Twitter

Twitter search in plain English

Twitter and microblogging

http://23things.wetpaint.com/page/Twitter+and+microblogging+%28Core%29

A post about the basics and value of Twitter on a "23 Things" blog

Places to twitter

Research into Twitter use

There is a growing amount of research into how and why people use Twitter. It is one of the areas you might want to research in a Masters dissertation. Some examples are linked below

Sentiment in Twitter events

http://www.uvm.edu/~pdodds/files/papers/others/2011/thelwall2011a.pdf

Thelwall, M., Buckley, K., & Paltoglou, G. (2011). Sentiment in Twitter events. Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, 62(2), 406-418.

How and why scholars cite on Twitter

http://www.asis.org/asist2010/proceedings/proceedings/ASIST_AM10/submissions/201_Final_Submission.pdf

Priem, J. and Costello, K. (2010). How and why scholars cite on Twitter. ASIST 2010, October 22–27, 2010, Pittsburgh, PA, USA