Using Twitter for Journalism

Just an example of how Twitter can be/is used by (on the ball) journalists…

I was just about to head to bed and noticed danjones101 mention that he was stuck on a train for four hours because of a gunman on a train track. I did wonder to myself where @danjones101 was and what was happening, but then I noticed the Birmingham Post twitter a link to their news article on it… then journalist BhamPostJoanna twitters @danjones101 to get the story.

Will be interested to see if Dan Jones is quoted tomorrow…

Twitter

EDIT: And in the time it took me to write this, danjones101 replied to BhamPostJoanna with contact details and BhamPostJoanna has emailed him.

EDIT (Thurs am): I sent BhamPostJoanna a link to this blog entry on Twitter and she replied with this:

You can read the article in full on the Birmingham Post website: “Rugby gunman hunt leaves passengers stranded”

Gone til November

I know I go on about it all the time but I am doing the final project of my CIPR Diploma at the moment and it’s not due until 24th October so the next month is going to be a hard slog writing a 6000 word report (3000 word literature review and 3000 words of primary research). Will try and blog more about the topic soon…

In the meantime, I had a funny conversation with my colleague and friend who is also studying the diploma. We have a funny game (I say funny, I probably mean geeky) where we find songs on YouTube to convey what we think/feel about things. Today I sent her this….

(EDIT: I sent her the actual music video, not this rubbish version but embedding has been removed by request – don’t you hate when people do that)

This is the conversation we had…

Ellie Lovell: ha ha http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=UBHHtpTwJeM
(4:32:18 PM) Julia: is this us?
(4:32:21 PM) Julia: gone til november?
(4:32:26 PM) Julia: 23 oct to be exact
(4:32:28 PM) Ellie Lovell: i know
(4:32:34 PM) Ellie Lovell: altho there wasn’t a song about 23rd oct
(4:32:42 PM) Julia: a good point
(4:32:48 PM) Julia: well made
(4:32:55 PM) Ellie Lovell: i will look for one
(4:33:01 PM) Julia: lol
(4:33:09 PM) Julia: will laugh if you find one

(This isn’t the exact conversation – I amended the typos)

I will let you know if I find a song about 23rd October.

Always time for Twitter

One of the drawbacks of Twitter is that when you are used to microblogging updates of 140 characters or less, anything more than that seems a bit too much effort (apart from when it’s actual work or study which i’m doing a lot of at the moment) hence my lack of blogging…

…but on the glass-half-full side, if you do visit this blog and wonder if I have disappeared off the face of the earth, just pop over to Twitter and you should find me there – I always have time for Twitter.

In the mean time I will try to find time to write more than 140 characters to update this blog (oh, I just have) and leave you with a nice song about Twitter from ihatemornings… Enjoy…

Procrastination

Right now I should be writing a Project Outline for my CIPR Diploma Project but instead I am procrastinating and I can see a lot more of this happening over the next month before the deadline on Friday 24th October.

via Podnosh