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for Journalists
Steve Buttry, Gazette CommunicationsIowa High School Press Association
October 29, [email protected]
@stevebuttry on Twitter
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Twitter use by age
Chicago Tribune graphic
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Audiences for Twitter• Develop followers; they read your tweets• Use Twitter app on Facebook• Feed tweets into CoverItLive liveblog• Twitter RSS feed for home page, blog
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What should I tweet about?
• Link to a new blog post, story, video, photo
• Retweet (with a comment) a link from a colleague
• Reply to students’ tweets• Tweet an unfolding story• Tweet something insightful or funny
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Linking with Twitter
• Use compressed links: bit.ly, tinyurl.com, is.gd, tr.im, etc.
• Write a headline or a comment; give tweeps a reason to click
• Credit (RT or via)
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Examples from one day in Iowa
• Click trends• Search hashtag #iagaymarriage• @tdorman from Supreme Court, press
conference• @DM_in_the_PM from rally• @dianeheldt from court
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Advice from your peers• “We are starting to use twitter for getting
sources, gaining interest, and getting contacts.”
• Students covering games text scores to Twitter account editor, who posts updates.
– Sana Bakshi, @thevikingmag, Palo Alto, CA
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Ethical considerations
• How do you identify yourself?• Separate personal and journalism
Twitter feeds?• What, if any, opinions are OK?
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Be careful• 39 percent of teens have posted
something they later regretted.• 25 percent of teens have created a
profile with a false identity.• 24 percent of teens have hacked into
someone else’s social networking account.
Source: Common Sense Media, 2009 study
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Wrapping up
• These slides at slideshare.net/stevebuttry
• Follow me on Twitter: @stevebuttry• The handout for this workshop is on my
blog: stevebuttry.wordpress.com
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Some final advice
From @mathewi (Globe and Mail):Don’t answer, “What are you doing?” Answer, “What am I thinking?”
And from @stevebuttry:“What do I want to know?”“What am I reading?”