Weekend read: My weekly share on Twitter, with favorites

Twitter can be a bit like a cool breeze--there's a lot moving over the windowsill. Here are the items that caught my eye this week on Twitter, where I'm @dontgetcaught. This week marks my third anniversary on Twitter--hard to believe it's been that short a time. These are the posts I found, read and shared:

• Get personal: Tim Nekritz reminds that if you're using a personal profile on Facebook for business, you're in violation of the terms of service. That's also true on Google+, which this week began pulling down accounts under the names of brands.
• Crafts with QR codes: If you use QR codes and want to spread 'em around, using paint, see this way to make a QR code stencil. Just promise you won't use it for a wallcovering.
• Southern searchers:  Local search turns out to be a phenomenon in the U.S. South and in small cities, says this new study.
• Journo tools:  How to use Google+ for breaking news gives you clues that will add to your media-relations savvy with this new tool, and this study yields best practices for journalists on Facebook.
• Hangouts are the new black:  Google+ has video chat "hangouts," and Facebook this week rolled out a similar option for up to 20 people.

And here are a few items favorited, to read later:

• Who owns news? This post looks at the concentration of media ownership--useful for your media relations team to read.
• How journalists are using Google+ yields five early examples.
• Small is beautiful: Building community for niche-topic blogs is another great Problogger post.

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