What happens when you tweet an Open Access Paper

“So a few weeks ago, I tweeted and posted about this paper: Terras, M (2009) ‘Digital Curiosities: Resource Creation Via Amateur Digitisation’. Literary and Linguistic Computing, 25 (4) 425 - 438. Available in PDF... Is Open Access a gamble that pays - and if so, in what way?... All in all, its been downloaded 535 times since it went live, from all over the world: USA (163), UK (107), Germany (14), Australia (10), Canada (10), and the long tail of beyond: Belgium, France, Ireland Netherlands, Japan, Spain, Greece, Italy, South Africa, Mexico, Switzerland, Finland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Portugal, Europe, UAE, "unknown"... Ergo, if you want people to read your papers, make them open access, and let the community know (via blogs, twitter, etc) where to get them. Not rocket science. But worth spending time doing...”