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twitter + journalism
13 March 2010
A 90-second Documentary
What Is Twitter?
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What Is Journalism?
Journalism Is…•Fair
•Accurate
•Relevant
•“Objective”?
•Transparent?
•“New”?
•“Professional”?
Social Media Journalism
•Digital delivery
•Informed
•Opinionated
•Many “journalists”
•“Publish Then Filter”
Twitter As News Source
•Plane In The Hudson
•Iran Elections
•Haiti Earthquake
•Chile Earthquake/Tsunami
•Michael Jackson’s death
A New Genre•D versus @ versus RT
•Follow versus Friend
•Favorites
•#hashtags
•Lists
•Broadcast versus Converse
•Nibble v Full Course
•TinyUrl et al
Environmental Monitoring
Research
Getting Started
•Web Browser
•Tweetdeck
•Cellphone (of course)
How to Follow
•Based on use
•Thought Leaders
•Wire Feeds
•Friends
•Interesting people
More Tools
•TwitPic
•SocialToo
•Ping.FM
•TweetStats
Twitter Is Social.
Have fun!
CC License: share&share alike, attribution, non-
commercialKathy E. Gill
• http://faculty.washington.edu/kegill or @kegill, @kegill_uw
• http://wiredpen.com/ and http://slideshare.net/kegill
Images: • Twitter.com logo
• Toolbox, http://www.autotoys.com/x/product.php?productid=7087
• Megaphone, http://warkscol.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/superchick_megaphone_logo_hi.jpg