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Info about Twitter for journalists

An absolute bevy of infor­ma­tion for jour­nal­is­tic uses of Twitter from Mr. Steve Buttry. Read it, and read the arti­cle he links to by Julie Posetti; it’s an analy­sis of Twitter use by Australian journalists.
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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 [...]
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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.
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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