Twitter

[Tom Humphrey]

You may have noticed that I added Twitter links to specimen pages a couple of weeks ago.

I don't think anyone has used them yet - but please do so

Apologies is this is stating the obvious...
Twitter is a way of posting very short messages ('tweets') which nominally are supposed to be answers to the question 'What am I doing?' - in a practice people use tweets far more broadly than that.

This could be a good way of highlighting interesting specimens that you've found on herb@home - helping to publicise the work we're doing to a wider audience. Tweets get noticed and rapidly indexed by search engines so can be a good way to spread links.

The twitter link from specimen page fills in part of the tweet message with a link back to the specimen, but there's still room for you to say why it's an important record.