Tim O’Reilly currently has 800K+ twitter followers. He liked my Wikipedia Papers idea and tweeted about it, after pinging me that I should update my blogger profile at O’Reilly with my twitter handle. Will do, it is @finnern.
You probably would like to know what is the O’Reilly factor of being mentioned in one of Tim’s tweets?
40 re-tweets 18 new followers (welcome) within 24 hours.This is of course only one data point, your millage may vary.
The greatest of all is, that my idea of letting students improve Wikipedia pages instead of writing papers reached a lot of people. Let’s hope it gets momentum. Spread the word.