Will Sullivan, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch online guru and occasional columnist over at Poynter, had a column that caught my attention this week. Being active on Twitter myself, I really liked his idea of breaking news on Twitter if the online staff of a newspaper is not there.
Twitter is really simple to use when it comes to posting about whatever you want on there, so why not breaking news as well? Just posting a line or two about it can get key information out. And multiple posts can get huge breaking news out easily. I know that an online staff is there to assist with this, but Twitter can help cut out the middleman until the full story is published at night.
Tags: breaking news, Poynter, Twitter, Will Sullivan
April 20, 2009 at 5:33 am |
this seems like a good idea because many people follow twitter more often than they go to news sites.