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Jan 31 2008

Twitter as a news tool

Posted at 12:05 am / tagged: , / comments closed

ReadWriteWeb has a great article about how Twitter is being more seriously used as a news and discussion tool, rather than just status — in other words, an article about something most of us Twitter folk already do. :)

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Discussion of Twitter as a news tool is now closed

Brad Kelly

I have to say, I’m with Shoemoney on this one, I just don’t get it. http://www.shoemoney.com/2008/01/30/twitter-i-just-dont-get-it/

posted on January 31st, 2008 at 12:13 am
Jared Smith

My advice is to join and just start following people and see what happens. The neat thing about Twitter is that there isn’t just one thing it’s useful for; you can adapt it to however you like. It’s still very hard to describe for people; you really just have to jump into the fray.

posted on January 31st, 2008 at 12:25 am
Justin Lilly

I like twitter as a news organization, which is why I set up a twitter account for The State Newspaper. Check it out @thestate or @thestatesports updates throughout the day with useful information.

posted on January 31st, 2008 at 7:22 am
Jared Smith

If they could keep it running for more than three hours at a time, I’d be all over it. ;)

posted on January 31st, 2008 at 11:16 pm

Discussion has now ended on Twitter as a news tool. Posts remain open to comments for six months after they are posted unless they are particularly popular. I'm always open to reopening a topic if there is a compelling interest in furthering its discussion; e-mail me and I'll consider it.

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