Friday, April 15, 2011

Twitter and Journalists, My Final Thoughts

Yesterday, in my Multimedia journalism class we spent an entire period--2 hours scavenger hunting. But with twitter.

               
And if you have read my other two posts about the 'bird' you will know that I have not taken to twitter all that well. But...

I think it may be growing on me, I have been doing some research about journalist on twitter and how they use the program to benefit their reporting and their stories...
click here:http://www.twitterjournalism.com/2009/06/27/10-pros-and-10-cons-of-twitter-for-journalists/
click here:http://www.businessweek.com/debateroom/archives/2011/02/twitter_isnt_journalism.html
and click here:http://mashable.com/2009/05/14/twitter-journalism/

So while I am still having some serious trouble, tweeting, I do understand the benefits and I enjoy seeing all the news from all the different newspapers/new sites I follow at the same time--it does make things alarmingly simple. Oh! and I finally got up a picture, hurray for me!



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