art251 joins the tweetsphere. You can find us right here. We’re certainly not the first art space to arrive on Twitter. In fact, we follow in the heavy twittering footsteps of more notable venues such as Tate Britain, MoMA, The Metropolitan Museum, the Guggenheim, Whitney and the Brooklyn Museum. And, numerous galleries around the world have been tweeting quite happily across the great tubes of the internet for a year or more. So, why did we take the plunge into twitterspace now?

Well, it’s really a technical answer. Even though tweets on twitter are limited to 140 characters, I didn’t want the added burden of having to update the art251 twitter status each time we posted new material on our website and blog. Of course, there a numerous ways to push status updates to twitter from websites, but I couldn’t find an efficient and reliable way until now. Now, that is, following a complete software upgrade of the art251 website. Hopefully you haven’t noticed any difference – we updated all the behind-the-scenes, inner-workings, and not the outer shell. So, if you follow art251 on Twitter, welcome and, stay tuned for more tweets and a little more art!