O Twitter nas bibliotecas universitárias federais do Sul do Brasil: um estudo cibermétrico

The article intends to investigate how it behave profiles of Twitter accounts of the federal university libraries of southern Brazil, with the contribution of one of the subfields of metric information studies. However, as theoretical foundation had agenda the cyberspace, social networks, Twitter and cybermetrics. The methodology is descriptive and approach to character on quantitative method. Were identified ten federal university libraries with the profile on the social network Twitter. Since then, the profiles were analyzed as time of creation, luminosity, visibility, impact factor and the availability of information. With some results were found that most of the profiles has round to seven years of existence. As for the impact factor the highest incidence of the profiles has a low impact factor. The profile of the UFSC is the profile that is most prominence in the research, besides it is what else provides information to their followers. It found that cybermetrics helps to measure, verify and estimate the information within cyberspace and social networks.