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Twitter’s usefulness explained by David Carr
Columnist David Carr on Twitter: What could anyone possibly find useful in this cacophony of short-burst communication? Well, that depends on whom you ask, but more importantly whom you follow. On Twitter, anyone may follow anyone, but there is very little expectation of reciprocity. By carefully curating the people you follow, Twitter becomes an always-on [...]
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 [...]
UPDATED What’s Twitter?
Twitter is really hard to explain to people who aren’t using it, and when people ask about the Twitter features they’ve heard of, such as hashtags and retweets, it gets worse. Then people start to ask about “Twitter on their phone” or programs that work with Twitter, and the confusion multiplies. It’s like trying to [...]
‘The Commentariat is under threat’
Shane Richmond, a tech columnist for the Daily Telegraph, wrote a piece the other day about how other columnists tackle Twitter. Most of them take a stand against Twitter and label it as a boring site populated by a bunch of complainers who are also scary. The animosity and snark comes, Richmond says, from the [...]
Twitter lists: A gentler introduction to Twitter
One of the bad things about Twitter is that it’s full of static. All those mundane posts about cats and breakfast and Kanye West can turn away people before they find people on Twitter worth following. (@amandaricker, I’m talking about you.) Thankfully, Twitter has provided a new tool that should help the microblogging service become [...]
Making sense of social media
Twitter is the whipping boy of social media because it’s one of the most visible networks out there, so please bear with me once again while I talk about general trends using Twitter as an example. A few people in the newsroom have expressed concerns about using Twitter. It’s too much noise and nonsense, too [...]
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Building a Twitter strategy
I took part in a webinar put on by News University today on Building a Twitter Strategy for Your News Organization. It was hosted by Ellyn Angelotti, the interactivity editor and an adjunct faculty member at the Poynter Institute. Angelotti made five key points about using Twitter successfully for journalism. Be human. People appreciate the [...]
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Richard Sambrook: Transparency is the new objectivity, and the Internet is not your enemy
I came across this post by Mercedes Bunz in the Guardian about a talk given by Richard Sambrook at the Oxford Social Media Convention. Sambrook is the head of the BBC Global News Division. On the importance of objectivity and transparency: Objectivity, he then pointed out, had always been an idea important for the news. [...]
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