Twitter: an asset for monitoring

How can I keep abreast of pharmaceutical group news in real time? How can I identify nanotechnology experts? How can I improve my visibility on the Internet?

To answer these three questions – and many others –, it may be worth including Twitter in your monitoring toolbox. Twitter is a platform for communication and dissemination, but it has become an indispensable platform for monitoring and crisis management.

In this fact sheet, we'll look at the advantages of Twitter for scientific watchers. In particular, we'll be presenting some often overlooked tricks for monitoring hashtags or identifying specialized lists.