Are you Twittering yet?

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Permalink Reply by Ron Sylvester on January 27, 2008 at 11:33pm

I, too, am a passive twitterer, wading before jumping. I've added you, Steve. I'm rsylvester.

I'm very interested in the possibilities this has for journalism, and as a story-telling innovation. I just haven't really figured out how yet.

But I see possibilities. I'll blog about this myself later.

And maybe we can figure this out together.

Hopefully, some more twitterers will weigh in.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Buttry on January 28, 2008 at 6:52am

Ron,

After I posted this question, I joined the group "New to Social Networks" and found a good discussion on Twitter that was helpful to me and probably will be to you, too.

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Permalink Reply by Vera Alves on January 28, 2008 at 8:04am

Hi Steve,

I've been twittering since August and I find it very interesting. It sometimes works for me like a mini-blog for when you want to refer what you're doing but you're not really inspired or don't really have the time to write a long post.

It's funny how I've even heard about some news from Twitterers before even seeing them on tv or newspapers. I'm very interesting in the possibilities of twitter as a tool for reporters.

I'm going to follow your experience on twitter (I'm twentysth there). Lets see what conclusions you'll come to. :)

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Permalink Reply by Shawn Smith on January 28, 2008 at 11:33am

I'm a huge proponent of Twitter, Steve. Try using a desktop client, such as Twirl or Twitterlicious and you'll enter a new world of Tweeting. I put up a guide to Twitter tools and resources on my blog, may have you some items to check out: http://www.newmediabytes.com/2008/01/18/best-twitter-tools-resource...

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Permalink Reply by Tracy DeLatte on February 11, 2008 at 7:38pm

I still don't get Twitter. I don't understand how it is a useful tool for news reporting. Can anyone help explain?

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Permalink Reply by Tracy DeLatte on February 11, 2008 at 7:59pm

Okay... so maybe it could be useful for politics. What about other things that we report on on a daily basis such as crime, corruption and scandal. What's the difference between using Twitter in the courtroom or blogging from the courtroom? Is it the aggregation?

The majority of the stuff I see on Twitter is useless information about where someone is going or what they are doing. If my audience is mainly people on their computer at work, I feel like I would turn them off with so much useless information.

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