Facebook Subscriber # > Twitter Follower # ? Where do you publish first if you have more Facebook subscribers than Twitter followers?
That’s a question more and more journalists are going to be asking themselves. This is just 3.5 months after the launch of Facebook’s late entry into asymmetrical following (I follow you, you don’t have to follow me back). Many individual content producers including TechCrunch / CrunchFund’s MG Siegler, The New York Times’ Nick Bilton, and myself have have seen our subscriber counts surpass our follower tallies. How? Because Facebook’s larger user count makes it easier to amass subscribers. This is why I think Facebook has a real chance to beat, or at least severely reduce the value of Twitter. Over time, the sheer popularity of Facebook could lead many to have a larger public audience there. Some caveats. Yes, the big influencers are on Twitter, and reaching them is important.
All Facebook has to do is expose subscribe links to its huge user base. Presse - Article - Comment les grands médias utilisent-ils Twitter ? En l’espace de quelques années, Twitter est devenu un outil incontournable au sein des rédactions.
Consacré par la quatrième enquête annuelle sur le journalisme numérique publiée par Oriella PR Network en mai 2011, le réseau social de micro-blogging transforme à la fois le métier de journaliste dans ses processus de collecte et de vérification de l’information mais renouvelle également les moyens de communiquer sur la diffusion de contenus que les médias relèvent de la presse papier, de la presse Web, de la télévision ou de la radio. Portant sur 3 646 tweets envoyés depuis les comptes officiels et associés des 13 plus grandes entreprises médiatiques des États-Unis[+] NotePour la presse écrite : The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The Arizona Republic, The Blade (Toledo). Pour la télévision : ABC, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News. Pour la radio : NPR.
Twitter: Journalists' best friend and journalism’s worst enemy. ShareThis The trend toward using people who tweet as legitimate sources in stories, and using stand-alone tweets as quotes, counteracts a primary function of the profession and promotes reactive reporting, says Stephanie Brooks.
In this article, she looks at why this trend is problematic and how she thinks journalists should be using the social media platform to enhance their reporting. As a fourth-year journalism student at Carleton University and wannabe social media guru, I am not naïve to the ways in which today’s reporters are finding and writing their stories. With over 880 Twitter followers, I’m an advocate for the effective use of social media in the newsroom. Today’s social world with unlimited connectedness and ability to reach people in real-time provides unprecedented opportunities for networking, business, and journalism.
Twitter, nueva fuente para los historiadores · ELPAÍS.com. Las redes sociales, sin proponérselo, se están convirtiendo en una fuente documental para historiadores y sociólogos.
Memo to AP: Twitter is the newswire now. Updated: It’s a distributed digital-information network that gives subscribers short news updates in something approaching real time, whether on the web or a mobile device.
If you said Twitter, you would be right. But that same description also fits traditional newswires like Associated Press and Reuters. So how are they trying to evolve and compete with this new social news service? According to an internal memo obtained by New York magazine, AP’s response is to admonish its reporters for posting news to Twitter instead of saving it for the company’s traditional wire-service subscribers — even though the news in question was about their own arrest in a crackdown on an Occupy Wall Street demonstration. The events referred to in the memo took place on Tuesday at Zucotti Park in New York city, where demonstrators from the Occupy Wall Street movement were forcibly removed by police and prevented from re-entering the park.
ESPN prohíbe a sus periodistas dar primicias a través de Twitter. When is a Twitter storm a real Twitter storm? Ten technical Twitter tips for journalists. So you think you know Twitter?
But do you know how to archive tweets, set up an RSS feed of a Twitter stream or have private group chat? Here are some practical, technical tips to help you: 1. Learn to love Twitter’s own advanced search. Since being updated earlier this year, Twitter’s search options have become much more powerful than they once were. Type to: in the search box on Twitter’s home page to get messages sent to you or to a particular username. Find local tweets using near: and within: This is a tip sent by journalism student Jeroen Kraan @KraanJ when we were discussing Twitter tips on @journalismnews.
There is a list of more Twitter advanced search commands here. 2. 3. 4. To add a feed of tweets from a user copy and paste the following, replacing xxxx with the user name. This method doesn’t work for Google Reader but is compatible with RSS readers such as NetNewsWire. jobs There’s also this really handy tool from Sociable.co. 5. 6. 7. 8.