Actually, I do read meta often and talk to Anton and Scott quite a bit about moderation issues (and MO in general), but I haven't had time to post my opinions on meta and have to settle for influencing what they say. (Maybe this will change next month after I move away from them.)

@Scott Morrison: I was puzzled .. You were a fan of the MO facebook page, as far as I could remember.

@Scott Morrison: I take it that the facebook page has nothing to do with you?

I really don't understand the point. The people who care enough about minutiae of mathoverflow are here on meta already. For everyone else (in our target audience) word of mouth, the forthcoming article in the Notices, etc., are much more relevant.

As Stephen Bigelow said to me recently (about google wave, not twitter): "If email was good enough for my grandparents, it's good enough for me."

This is becoming so social 2.0 that the sterotypical mathematician is going to start walking away back into his/her corner! :)

Also meta has rss feeds.

If following too many feeds is a problem, then the best way is to use google reader or something similar, like netvibes. That makes the experience much better.

Then next, all the mods could have collective access to the twitter account. However that is between you folks.

I think that there are a lot of things MO could potentially do on Twitter, but I am sceptical as to how many of them we should do before the signal-noise ratio gets too low. However, this is only my hasty opinion.

For an example of what could have been tweeted by MO, the perfect example is in facebook:

For everyone in Berkeley tomorrow (Tuesday): wear your MO shirts to the Joint Algebraic Geometry Seminar/Dinner! Anton and I have extra shirts (and stickers) in our offices. If enough of wear MO shirts, maybe Johan de Jong (who is speaking) will start using the site.

Anything you might want to announce at facebook, could be done better via twitter. Of course everything would have to be compressed to fit in the character comments.

Other examples: 1. You could announce an MO meeting,. 2. Announce a sale of t-shirts, 3. Mention that MO got mentioned in New York times. 4. Tweet that Tate got the Abel prize. 5. Tweet about the Fields medal winner in the upcoming ICM. The possibilities are endless.

And you can communicate with your fans(if that is the right word). You would feel kind of like a celebrity as an MO mod with control of that twitter account, having many followers.

But of course it can't be taken it too seriously. MO would be the main field of action, not twitter. Also it can't replace meta. Twitter is not for discussions.