To blog or to tweet ? Both activities for some Journalists and some Lawyers

To blog or to tweet ? Both activities for some Journalists and some Lawyers

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Social Networking as a Tool for Journalists ) source: http://www.seyboldreport.com/all-a-twitter-social-networking-a-tool-journalists

Micro-blogging site Twitter is fast becoming the quickest way to spread and share information about a calamity or event. During the attacks in Mumbai last year, CNN estimated that 80 messages, or "tweets," were being sent to Twitter via SMS every five seconds, providing eyewitness accounts and updates before the TV news - much less newspapers - had a chance to catch up. During President Obama's inauguration, Twitter reported five times its usual traffic per second and four times the number of short-message tweets in a typical minute.

Lawyers on Twitter: see LexTweet

And on the present blog about Twitter and microblogging

After the inauguration of Barack Obama, some lessons about his campaign

After TweetCongress, TweetMinster in Westminster

Prime Minister joins Twitter in Australia

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[jraybaut]

Twitter in plain english
see the didactic video at
http://www.commoncraft.com/twitter

[jraybaut]

Pew Report on Twitter and Status Updating

The Pew Internet & American Life Project has published a new report on Twitter and other applications which enable users to update their status online.

Key Findings:

* As of December 2008, 11% of online American adults had used Twitter or other status update service.
* Nearly one in five (19%) online adults ages 18 and 24 have ever used Twitter and its ilk, as have 20% of online adults 25 to 34.

see at http://oedb.org/blogs/ilibrarian/2009/pew-report-on-twitter-and-status-updating/

[jraybaut]

at http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2009/02/how-journalism-students-used-twitter-to-report-on-australian-elections034.html

How Journalism Students Used Twitter to Report on Australian Elections

[jraybaut]

Journalists leaping onto Twitter - should government?
at
http://egovau.blogspot.com/2009/02/journalists-leaping-onto-twitter-should.html

[jraybaut]

The 100 Most Popular Twitter Applications
Blending the Mix presents a mega-list of the 100 Most Popular Twitter Applications. The list is based on each program’s popularity on the social bookmarking website delicious, and the total number of users who have bookmarked each program is provided in parentheses. These are the top ten:
1. twittervision (4282 overall)
2. twitterfeed (3867 overall)
3. twhirl (3319 overall)
4. tweetscan (2655 overall)
5. twistori (2631 overall)
6. twitter-search (2500 overall)
7. tweetdeck (2439 overall)
8. twitpic (2244 overall)
9. hellotxt (1979 overall)
10. twitterrific (1729 overall)
Source : http://oedb.org/blogs/ilibrarian/2009/the-100-most-popular-twitter-applications/