Dear all,

I am considering the strategy in the social networks to disseminate a
Spanish website that a friend and I have been building over the last
years (http://malacowiki.wikispaces.com/) and I have found out a few
things that I hadn't noticed before.

While there is a vibrant community in Facebook and a reasonable bunch of
excellent pictures in Flickr, I do miss more people on twitter. This is
a bit on the surprising side. My reasoning maybe a flawed as I am not a
twitter user.  However, if I was one, I would definitely follow anyone
who is willing to say "hey, guys, did you see the latest article in
Zootaxa about clausiliids? + link to abstract"  or "New book on
landsnails of Zambia published". Even posting links to the conch-l
archives when there's something relevant would have a value in itself.
Why is this not happening? Is it that malacologists are generally not on
twitter or how can we explain it?

For instance, I find this quite relevant: https://twitter.com/AMS1931
and however there are less than 100 followers! I looked for more
accounts and they are either not specialised or they simply have very
few followers.

My idea was to maintain an account in English focused on malacology. But
I fear that it may not be worth the trouble. What do you think?

Miguel
P.S.: in case anyone feels curious :) We have only created entries for
 >60  terrestrial species so far:
http://malacowiki.wikispaces.com/ListadoGasteropodosTerrestres

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