Comments on: New Tricks: Break the Twitterfeed habit

By: Swage Machine

Swage Machine — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 04:00:23 +0000

A helpful post.. Thanks for this information.. hope you do another of this..

By: New Tricks: Gain more Twitter followers for your news organization | Old Media, New Tricks

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:01:35 +0000

[...] been rolling on Twitter for a little while — maybe thanks to our recent posts, even — but now you’re starting to get into it a bit [...]

By: Separating the good newspaper Twitter from the bad | The Daily Smoet

Separating the good newspaper Twitter from the bad | The Daily Smoet — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:14:19 +0000

[...] Rob Quigley (who also does it right @Statesman) has pointed out a couple of times over at Old Media New Tricks, including this new post, it’s very beneficial for news [...]

By: 10 new media blogs I love | Chris Snider

10 new media blogs I love | Chris Snider — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:26:27 +0000

[...] Break the Twitterfeed habit [...]

By: OMNT Links of the Week #6 | Old Media, New Tricks

OMNT Links of the Week #6 | Old Media, New Tricks — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:04:21 +0000

[...] example of social media-coverage of the Mumbai attacks and then got into a spirited discussion of whether news organizations should break the Twitterfeed habit. (Patrick LaForge, an editor at The New York Times, continued the conversation in a blog post here. [...]

By: Strange Attractor » Blog Archive » links for 2008-12-18

Strange Attractor » Blog Archive » links for 2008-12-18 — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:30:39 +0000

[...] New Tricks: Break the Twitterfeed habit | Old Media, New Tricks "Here’s the problem: People generally do NOT want to follow an RSS feed on Twitter, especially from a news organization. Twitter is a conversational tool. It is a personal tool. If you want to read an RSS feed, you can use Google Reader. If you want people to follow your newsroom’s account, put a person on it. A real person." (tags: journalism socialmedia newspapers twitter) [...]

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Wed, 17 Dec 2008 10:43:00 +0000

[...] New Tricks: Break the Twitterfeed habit | Old Media, New Tricks – “sharing links with a human touch. It makes all the difference. Twitter is free. All you’re spending by doing it the right way is work hours. Do it — you’ll like the results.” [...]

By: Do brands belong on Twitter? Yes and no — mathewingram.com/work

Do brands belong on Twitter? Yes and no — mathewingram.com/work — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:38:35 +0000

[...] an account maintained by Daniel Honigman, a staffer at the Chicago Tribune newspaper (who has some smart thoughts about Twitter use). The avatar is a cartoon mascot, but there is clearly a human voice behind the [...]

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:17:32 +0000

We run a Twitter account for the British Bournemouth Daily Echo. I started out with a Twitterfeed but I ditched it pretty quickly for posting links, like I would on my own Twitter account, with a hand-written tweet.
I also use it to talk to our followers, a concept which is taking some time to kick in as I think most of them EXCEPT an RSS feed, and post tweets about traffic or breaking news. We also post links to other local content we think people might like.
We're only a small paper and we don't have as many followers as I'd like but we get more click-throughs than our sister paper down the coast which only posts RSS feeds…

By: Tina_Pittaway

Tina_Pittaway — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 06:04:54 +0000

I am a newbie to Twitter, having signed up about a week or two ago. One of the first media sites I chose to follow was the Huffington Post. I dumped them a few days in because I was irritated by the sheer number of posts. I felt like I was being snowed under by their links, and thought “Why the heck do I want all this crap in my Twitter account?” Essentially I thought they were eyeball hogs. I'm still figuring out what I like and dislike about Twitter, and maybe I'll at some point change my mind about disliking a barrage of posts from sites like the HuffPost. But I'm not there yet.