Twitter may not be as useless as I thought at first

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Comment by Whitney Rhodes on March 26, 2008 at 11:15pm

"gmusports"

We have updates until the NCAA tournament -- where we used Cover It Live.

Comment by Erica Smith on March 26, 2008 at 2:17am

Whitney, what's the Twitter username? I've got a running list of newspaper Twitter users with some basic stats. (Just added The Independent too!)

Comment by Whitney Rhodes on March 26, 2008 at 2:04am

We twitter live Mason basketball plays and scores. Users can subscribe ... still working out the mobile subscription details but I've seen it done before!

Comment by Nancy JonesFrancis on March 25, 2008 at 10:21pm

That's great what you've done, Stephanie.

Comment by Stephanie Romanski on March 25, 2008 at 12:17pm

I put our paper's local news and update rss feeds through Twitter and it's been well-received by the community who appreciate having a new and convenient way to get their local news updates. I thought Twitter would just be fun and yeah, kind of useless when I first started doing it myself, but I've learned it's quite the powerful little bugger. - http://twitter.com/theindependent

Comment by Nancy JonesFrancis on March 24, 2008 at 11:21pm

Last night, I went to reportwitters, but didn't have time to explore it. It looks like a great place to learn more about using Twitter in the journalism. I hope to look at that soon!

Thanks you all for your pithy comments.

Comment by Barbara Iverson on March 24, 2008 at 10:18am

Thanks for the comments. I followed the Sarah Lacy/SXSW presentation fiasco in real-time from Chicago via Twitter. Also, wrote about the China earthquake and twitter because it broke on Twitter and the USGS site, not on MSM.

Comment by Erica Smith on March 23, 2008 at 6:40pm

I've definitely gleaned story and graphic ideas from Twitter posts. And picked up on news, usually not from the newspaper/tv users.

Comment by Nancy JonesFrancis on March 23, 2008 at 4:03pm

Thank you, angelique

Comment by Nancy JonesFrancis on March 23, 2008 at 3:02pm

Dang, I guess I need to check this out.

I've often thought twitter is a waste of time, too much social distraction.

Thanks for the share.

Nancy