Ithaca, NY Are you tuned in to many information and media channels on multiple devices most of the time? Maybe that’s why interest in brief communications that allow for quick shuffles and sorts are are so popular–who has time for long content? Even Tina Brown, author and former editor of magazines Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, known for in-depth articles, recently commented in an NPR interview, “On the internet, news articles get to the point. Newspaper writing, by contrast, is encrusted with conventions that don’t add to your understanding of the news (http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=123240222).”

Short shout-outs and status reporting on social networking sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and other less mainstream variations are booming. The Jan. 2010 size of the Twitterverse alone is reported to be at 75 million registered users worldwide. A recent ComputerWorld article (http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9148878/Twitter_now_has_75M_users_most_asleep_at_the_mouse) implies, however, that the apex of new monthly Twitter registrations may have passed (July 2009: 7.8M per month).

“The growth rate of new users is slowing and a lot of current Twitterers are inactive, according to a study released today.”

The DuraSpace Twitterverse, however, continues to grow with 378 followers who read and often passed on 35 micro blog bits with links to additional content during the past month. Snippets are focused on open technology news, notes and observations from meetings as well as related information of interest for the extended Fedora Repository, DSpace, and DuraCloud communities. Content that points to cloud computing information as well as calls for participation in upcoming conferences and events are popular in the DuraSpace Twitterverse. Here’s a look at some recent distributed short shout-outs from DuraSpace and where they were reflected out http://search.twitter.com/search?q=duraspace.