Twitter may not be as useless as I thought at first

[Barbara Iverson]

[Nancy JonesFrancis]

Dang, I guess I need to check this out.

I've often thought twitter is a waste of time, too much social distraction.

Thanks for the share.

Nancy

[angelique]

Twitter is great. Be invited to join ReporTwitters.com! I write the blog for that group blog.reportwitters.com.
We're a bunch of 70 plus journalists that Twitter. That's pretty much IT but we're looking to exchange ideas too.

It should be a pleasure to have you on board.
Regards,
Angelique van Engelen

[Nancy JonesFrancis]

Thank you, angelique

[Erica Smith]

I've definitely gleaned story and graphic ideas from Twitter posts. And picked up on news, usually not from the newspaper/tv users.

[Barbara Iverson]

Thanks for the comments. I followed the Sarah Lacy/SXSW presentation fiasco in real-time from Chicago via Twitter. Also, wrote about the China earthquake and twitter because it broke on Twitter and the USGS site, not on MSM.

[Nancy JonesFrancis]

Last night, I went to reportwitters, but didn't have time to explore it. It looks like a great place to learn more about using Twitter in the journalism. I hope to look at that soon!

Thanks you all for your pithy comments.

[Stephanie Romanski]

I put our paper's local news and update rss feeds through Twitter and it's been well-received by the community who appreciate having a new and convenient way to get their local news updates. I thought Twitter would just be fun and yeah, kind of useless when I first started doing it myself, but I've learned it's quite the powerful little bugger. - http://twitter.com/theindependent

[Nancy JonesFrancis]

That's great what you've done, Stephanie.

[Whitney Rhodes]

We twitter live Mason basketball plays and scores. Users can subscribe ... still working out the mobile subscription details but I've seen it done before!

[Erica Smith]

Whitney, what's the Twitter username? I've got a running list of newspaper Twitter users with some basic stats. (Just added The Independent too!)