Better Engineering via Twitter

From the current issue of MIT Sloan - How Twitter Users Can Generate Better Ideas by Parise, Whelan, and Todd - findings of their research:

1. Overall, employees who used Twitter had better ideas that those who didn't.
2. In particular, there was a link between the amount of diversity in employees' Twitter networks and the quality of their ideas.
3. Twitter users who combined idea scouting and idea connecting were the most innovative.