Twitter
for Journalists
Tools
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Twitter
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TweetGrid
Web-based program that allows you to split twitter feeds and monitor
several at once
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A guide to Tweet Grid
Video tutorial about using TweetGrid
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Twitterfall
A web-based tool to monitor your twitter feeds and keyword searches
as they are posted
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A guide to using Twitterfall
A blog posting explaining the benefits of the new Twitter interface,
Twitterfall
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Twellow.com
Find people on Twitter
»Twitturly
Tracks which URLs are most popular on Twitter, based on how many
times they've been shared by Twitter users.
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Tweetdeck
Desktop software that allows you to split tweets into columns, groups
and keyword searches
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Twhirl
Another desktop software program that helps you manage your twitter
account
How To Guides and Tutorials
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The Ultimate Guide for Everything Twitter
A clear, illustrated, well organized guide to everything from setting
up a twitter account and using it, to definitions for such things
as Twittercrastination, Twritteritas and Tweethearts.
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Birds of a Feather Twitter Together
A short, clear well-written primer on Twitter from the Wall Street
Journal's Katherine Boehret
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Twitter for Journalists and Recovering Journos
A post about the value of twitter for journalists and tips
for getting started by Amy Gahran at contentious.com
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Five Ways to Gather and Report News with Twitter
A simple, clear list of ways journalists could and should be
using twitter from the IdeaLab
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The Top Mistakes New Twitter Users Make
from 10,000 Words
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Twitter Tips
A helpful set of tips and links to a webcast of a workshop on Twitter
from Jen Reeves, a new media journalist and prof
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Twittering Tips for Beginners
The always entertaining David Pogue's guide for newbies
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Twitter's charms sort of grow on you
Observations from the LA Times' James Rainey
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Twitter for Beginners
A slideshow from Paul Bradshaw - a British journalism educator
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How journalists can master twitter
Another, longer blog post from Paul Bradshaw - a British journalism
educator
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Twitter for Journalists: A webcast
A 90-minute program hosted by Columbia University's Journalism
School about journalists using Twitter
Readings
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Is Twitter the Newsroom of the Future
Some food for thought to prompt a discussion about the potential
impact of twitter on journalism from Idealab
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All the News that's Fit to Tweet
From the American Journalism Review, October 2008
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Dear Twitter
If what you really need is a chuckle about twitter... |
