Tag Archives: twitter
Notes from #wjchat
I participated tonight in what I understand to be the first Wired Journalists wired journalists chat on Twitter. It was fast-paced and went on for much longer than the planned hour — from what I can discern. I had to leave after an hour.
(Proof it happened.)
In the hour I could stay on, between furiously trying to [...]
A third as prolific as Twitter seems to think
In case you were checking up on me, my Twitter account is one of many affected by a bug that somehow multiplied our tweet counts by a factor of roughly three. I have not tweeted more than 11,300 times, but if you want to think of me as being that prolific, be my guest.
Why Twitter Will Endure
At first, Twitter can be overwhelming, but think of it as a river of data rushing past that I dip a cup into every once in a while.
via nytimes.com
David Carr writes that Twitter is more like Internet “plumbing” than a fad, a service with something for everybody that only gets better the more people use it.
“At first, [...]
Consider the journalism on Twitter, not whether Twitter is journalism
Twitter is a medium and cannot be considered as a whole, writes Alfred Hermida, who’s worried that we’re about to rehash the old argument about whether a new medium “is journalism.”
Rather than arguing about whether Twitter is or isn’t journalism, we should shift the conversation to understanding the journalism taking place on this platform [...]
Michael Becker has been blogging about academia, digital culture and journalism since 2005. He is the Web editor of the
Info about Twitter for journalists