A collaboration by people that signed up at reporTwitters is going underway to communally write an article featuring a journalistic assessment of Twitter.
I have put up three questions in Assessing The News Value Of Twittering - A Call For Comments of Professional Journalists;
1) What was the most unexpected thing you’ve recently found yourself Twittering about?
2) What is the most unexpected issue you heard via other people’s Twitterings?
3) How do you use Twitter professionally?
Go to that page to participate and become part of our first collaborated article. It will be published, that’s for sure.
By the way, the first real live scoop by Twitter on all other forms of news media was the death of Jennifer Dunn recently. It was a scoop from a scoop. Wikipedia reported the former Congresswoman’s death at 9:12 a.m., only minutes before a newspaper reporter reported it. The source was a breaking news alert from Twitter!
2 Comments to “The News Value of Twitter”
September 12, 2007
1) The most unexpected thing(s) I recently found myself Twittering about was “the line at Starbucks; having to pick something up because the company’s policy wouldn’t allow them to mail my purchase to me; and how to use Twitter.”
2) The most unexpected issue/thing I heard via others’ Twitterings was the growing number of news agencies that are starting to use the service. I didn’t expect to read media professionals’ streams of consciousness via text — which ultimately I find the most useful thing about this service.
3) I am in the midst of setting up a Twitter account to disseminate special news announcements, voting results, and blog postings to members of my association, a nonprofit organization for education in journalism.
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