Some ideas on how twitter can be used for journalism:
Breaking News - Plane Crash
Reporting from a Press Event
Conduct Interviews - Business Week
Asking for help - Wisdom of Crowd
Promoting sites - Point to blog posts
Linking to photos - Flickr, twitpic
Linking to audio - Utterli, BlogTalkRadio
Linking to video - Flickr, YouTube, Qik, Ustream
You can post to twitter from twitter.com, via SMS, web interface on mobile phones m.twitter.com, or cellphone clients like twitterrific and tweetie.
Here are some more suggestions of people to follow on twitter:
jayrosen nyu - news / professor
david gregory - Meet the Press Host, just joined
imogen heap - my favorite musical artist
garyvee - wine library tv
cc chapman - pr / marketing in boston
chris brogan - social media guy in boston
baratunde - comedian, the onion
jimmy fallon - late night host!
Scott Beale - laughingsquid - SF tech guy
jeff pulver - social media
julia roy - NYC PR, has a YouTube show about twitter
ijustine - she is the internet
Jim Long - newmediajim - NBC camera guy who follows Obama
stevegarfield - Follow me too.
Online Video People to follow a TweepML list.
Photo to Flickr
Get your email address at flickr.com/tools. Then you can use that address to email photos from your cellphone into flickr.
Photo to Flickr to twitter
Step 1:
- Sign into flickr
- Set up twitter as a “blog” - Authenticate your flickr account with twitter’s API.
Step 2:
Add 2twitter to the email
EX: address2twitter@flickr.photo.com
