ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses some of the findings from a research project called Academics Who Tweet, involving qualitative interviews with academics. It highlights how academics applied Twitter as a research tool, to develop and maintain research networks and for professional development. The chapter also investigates how academics are conducting their scholarly lives on social media in ways that make relations with others, their practices and the university more visible. It theorises Twitter as a place that is borderless and points to insights and knowledge of social relations enacted by academics. It positions Twitter and contemporary academic practices as enactments of entangled lines whereby complex and layered weaving of ideas is carried out. The chapter presents five academic activities and labels them as: 'noticing', 'research inquiry', 'digital becoming', 'visibility' and 'hooking up'. In thinking about Twitter as a place, the intersection between academics and how they think that they relate to others goes some way to illustrate the idea of meshworks.
