Why Twitter matters for media organisations | Alan Rusbridger | Technology. I've lost count of the times people – including a surprising number of colleagues in media companies – roll their eyes at the mention of Twitter. "No time for it," they say. "Inane stuff about what twits are having for breakfast. Nothing to do with the news business. " Well, yes and no. Here, off the top of my head, are 15 things, which Twitter does rather effectively and which should be of the deepest interest to anyone involved in the media at any level. 1) It's an amazing form of distribution It's a highly effective way of spreading ideas, information and content. Why does this matter? 2) It's where things happen first Not all things. 3) As a search engine, it rivals Google Many people still don't quite understand that Twitter is, in some respects, better than Google in finding stuff out. 4) It's a formidable aggregation tool You set Twitter to search out information on any subject you want and it will often bring you the best information there is. 5) It's a great reporting tool.
10 Advanced Twitter Search Tricks to search twitter better. With Twitter, there is always an over load of information that its quite hard to keep up with the trend, if you’re not moving along with it. Take a break out of Twitter for one or two weeks and see what happens when you get back. There would be lot of information ahead of you and catching up with them is a big task. But with Twitter search, things get fairly easy. Twitter search recently acquired “Summize” just for enhancing its search tool and the changes are already showing up.
Here are 10 such tips that will help you search the right information on Twitter beyond your timeline and around the world ! (Be sure to check the example links besides each to see how they work) 1. From:twitterusername To search for tweets from a twitter user, use the above search term. 2. From:twitterusername filter:links To search for only tweets with links from a twitter user, use the above search term. 3. Download torrent filter:links 4. To:username 5. @username 6. From:username1 to:username2 7. 8. 9. 10. 55 Interesting Social Media Infographics. How Twitter has become the people's voice on the eve of its fifth birthday | Technology | The Observer. Blame Stephen Fry. In Twitter the preening polymath found his true calling, sending out an ever changing and oddly riveting mix of self-promotion and stream of consciousness as he tweeted his every thought and photo.
His thoughts on Boyzone singer Stephen Gately, a picture of a parrot, a call for charity in Sri Lanka, Stephen in a balloon hat, all mixed in with his Wildean wit: "Streets of London fantastically full of young people. Either it's half-term or truancy in this country is running wildly out of control. " Millions came to watch, millions more joined in. You may scoff but we are all Stephen Fry now. Twitter is five next month. Last week the Californian business received another, more concrete, recognition of its status.
The appeal comes because Twitter genuinely offers something new, says Douglas Rushkoff, author and media theorist. Celebrity users included Fry, Lindsay Lohan, Lady Gaga and Ashton Kutcher. All this celebrity endorsement sent Twitter usage rocketing. Twitter Topics and Why They Become Popular. How Journalists Can Leverage Social Media. Jason Falls Last summer I spent a good deal of time researching and preparing a presentation for Blog World & New Media Expo on putting social media in the newsroom. The point was to show media outlets how some were using web 2.0 and social media technologies to expand their online offerings and engage audiences around their news-gathering products. The focus was directed at executives and media outlets as opposed to individual journalists. Tonight I have the honor of joining one of my favorite journalists, Todd Mundt of Louisville Public Radio and morning host at WFPL, in a presentation to the Louisville Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.
Here’s an exacerbated outline of what I will bring to the table. Some General Points For Journalists To Consider 1. Journalists certainly can be taken aback by bloggers and consumer-generated media. 2. The biggest concern a journalist should have in diving into social media is thinking that all this user-generated stuff is reliable. 3. Twitter Isn’t Journalism, Or Is It? Perhaps It's the Wrong Question to Ask Brian Solis. InShare34 I was asked to enter the Bloomberg BusinessWeek Debate Room to make the case “for” Twitter as a platform for journalism – at least that’s how I interpreted it. On the other side, ScribbleLive CEO Michael De Monte debates why it is “for the birds.” But before we get too far down the path, let’s frame the discussion. The original debate topic posed by BusinessWeek, “Twitter Isn’t Journalism, Or Is It?” Is a bit misleading and honestly, I think it’s the wrong question to ask.
In his reaction to the question as posed, Jeff Jarvis shed light on its fallibility through a literal interpretation, “More like an undebate. Dan Patterson of ABC News Radio introduced helpful frames of reference in his Tweet, “It’s the wrong question. Perhaps Jarvis’s response is an example of what’s really at the heart of the debate, context. As Alex Howard signals, “There is a debate, whether you acknowledge it or not: shield laws now protect journalists, not acts of journalism.”
Social media for journalists: 10 essential tools | Alexandra Samuel. This is the final post in a series, Social media for journalists. We all know that social media is transforming the broadcast and publishing businesses. But social media offers journalists at as many useful opportunities as challenges. This week, I’ve highlighted three of the tools that are most crucial to my own work as a freelance blogger for Oprah.com and Harvard Business Review.
Today, I’m rounding those out with 7 more tools that have been essential to my research and writing: Evernote. If these tools sound like they could be as useful to bloggers as they are to journalists — or for that matter, to a wide range of other professionals — they are. And that’s what it takes to make the most of social media today. Twitter: tweeting louder than ever | Technology. Twitter: about 40% of tweets originate on a mobile device. Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian 'Just setting up my twttr", wrote Jack Dorsey, Twitter's co-founder and chairman, on 21 March 2006 at 12.50pm, Pacific Daylight Time. If you feel like lighting candles and baking cakes, that's 8.50pm GMT on Monday – marking the point at which Twitter, variously dubbed a social networking service and a microblogging service, turns five. In that time it has woven itself into tumultuous events: the news that a plane had crash-landed in the Hudson River (with picture); the election protests in Iran; the rapid dispersal of the news of an 7.8-magnitude earthquake in China; updates from the ground about the terrorist attacks in Mumbai.
There have been less important moments – multiple billions of them, including Stephen Fry being stuck in a lift ("we could be here for hours. Twitter has become an endlessly flowing river of news, opinion, information, expertise, contacts, data, links, connections. How Journalists are Using Social Media for Real Results. The Real Results series is supported by Gist, an online service that helps you build stronger relationships. By connecting your inbox to the web, you get business-critical information about key people and companies.
See how it works here. Journalists are, by nature, crafty folk who are wonderfully adept at stalking — I mean, finding sources and relevant information for various and sundry stories. Well, the advent of social media has made the process of reporting all the more nuanced, and has served as a vital channel for everything from finding leads to contacting sources to sharing and furthering one's brand. Still, as the Internet continues to expand, it can be difficult to pick and choose which tools are right for you as a journalist — it can be daunting to litter one's desktop with Twitter applications, social networks, location-based tools and blogs. At times, it's tempting to throw one's laptop into the sea and return to the days of notepads and typewriters. Finding Sources. Ethics of social media for journalists | Save the Media. If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed.
Thanks for visiting! A friend, Glenn Coin, has asked me to guest lecture about the ethics of social media for his Utica College journalism class, so I figured I’d blog my lesson plan to save time — and spread the message. I thought the ethics of social media is a timely topic, given the debate over social media rules that has been waging now for months. It began in the spring when first the Dow Jones Co. and then The New York Times issued social media rules.
Then it resurfaced recently when The Washington Post released its rules, and a WaPo editor admitted he quit Twitter, rather than violate the rules. In the meantime, several ethical moments in social media have taken place, and I’ll got through them each later in this post. First, what are ethics? Merriam-Webster defines ethics as: A set of moral principles : a theory or system of moral values. What about for journalists? So are things any different online? I agree with OJR. 3.