Do you tweet?
February 24th, 2009 at 11:33am Anna Derocher
I am familiarizing myself with Twitter, and I still have a lot to learn. Here’s what Twitter is straight from Twitter: “In countries all around the world, people follow the sources most relevant to them and access information via Twitter as it happens — from breaking world news to updates from friends.” By the way, these tweets are 140 characters or less, making them more like text messages than blog posts.
Take the hotel explosion in Mumbai a couple months ago. Millions of tweets (or mini posts) were made on Twitter from questions about loved ones who were feared dead to what people in Mumbai were seeing. It made me think back to 9/11 and what that day would have been like had Twitter and some of these other social networking sites had existed.
Journalists are getting on the Twitter bandwagon. Some quickly. Some slowly. One of the best media sites I’ve seen is done by the statesman.com. They even link to the Top 50 people who Tweet … “Tweeples.”
NYTimes.com tech guy David Pogue put together this video on Twitter. Pogue, who puts a humorous spin on techy stuff, has done videos and columns on Bluetooth headsets, Skype, the iPhone (my favorite) and more.
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2 Comments Add your own
1. Jon | February 26th, 2009 at 4:37 pm
Familiarizing yourself with Twitter “personally,” or “professionally?” If professionally, why are you still waiting (in other words, “get with the program”)?
2. Anna Voelker | February 26th, 2009 at 4:51 pm
Jon: We’re talking about getting with the program. We’ve set up an account and we’re experimenting. Love what Austin is doing. Not sure what we’ll do here.
Anna Voelker, assistant managing editor, rrstar.com
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