Friday, November 21, 2008

All the news that's fit to tweet.

Press release distribution service for Twitter, seriously

Journalism.co.uk has launched a new service to distribute press releases to mobile devises via Twitter. Seriously. The service aims to “target journalists and bloggers on the move by sending alerts to their mobile devices.” “Journalists can sign up to receive free SMS alerts to their mobile telephone whenever a press release relevant to their subject area is published on Journalism.co.uk.” Is it just us, or are journalists not really going to go for this? Read the story.

May 14, 2008 | Filed Under Uses | 1 Comment 

Help write a BusinessWeek article with your tweets

Here’s an interesting use of Twitter: Stephen Baker (@stevebaker) at BusinessWeek is asking readers to help him write an article about Twitter one tweet at a time. He explains: “The idea of writing in this format is to turn Twitter into something of an editorial wiki. I’ll write a 140-letter chunk and wait an hour. Meanwhile, people can correct my chunks or write what they think should be the next one. Maybe some of those chunks will supplant my own. Eventually, I’m hoping, we’ll publish the whole thing as a core story that spouts all sorts of Twittery arms and legs—each one a sign of a direction it could have taken. In fact, maybe some of those legs can turn into other, parallel stories.” Contributors are tagging their tweets with #bwstory for easy aggregation. Read the story.

May 9, 2008 | Filed Under Uses | 2 Comments 

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