The International Studies Association has set up a Twitter account to draw traffic to its offical blog. At the moment there are only five followers on this account (including yours truly), but perhaps Twittering will catch on with Political Scientists.

My hunch is that those on the job market would really benefit from using Twitter instead of/in addition to sifting through the long comments on the Rumor Mill Blog. I know for a fact that some of my colleagues around the country, who are not even on the job market, are completely addicted to seeing who got "the interview" of the moment. Even department chairs and tenured professors are logging in several times a day to see if their ideal candidate is still on the market...

Twitter would have the advantage of piping this information gossip to their cellphones in a digestible format. I'm sure someone will eventually figure this out...

Labels: political science, web technology