Comments on: How important is Twitter for student journalists? http://blogs.pressgazette.co.uk/students/2008/02/15/how-important-is-twitter-for-student-journalists/ News and views about student journalism and journalism education in the UK Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:20:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Dave Lee / jBlog » Blog Archive » How important is Twitter for student journalists? http://blogs.pressgazette.co.uk/students/2008/02/15/how-important-is-twitter-for-student-journalists/#comment-39 Dave Lee / jBlog » Blog Archive » How important is Twitter for student journalists? Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:42:53 +0000 http://blogs.pressgazette.co.uk/students/2008/02/15/how-important-is-twitter-for-student-journalists/#comment-39 [...] this surprise me? Not even slightly. (Read more…) Tags: My Work press gazette Topics: Press Gazette, My Work | Comments [...] [...] this surprise me? Not even slightly. (Read more…) Tags: My Work press gazette Topics: Press Gazette, My Work | Comments [...]

]]> By: Paul Bradshaw http://blogs.pressgazette.co.uk/students/2008/02/15/how-important-is-twitter-for-student-journalists/#comment-37 Paul Bradshaw Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:25:27 +0000 http://blogs.pressgazette.co.uk/students/2008/02/15/how-important-is-twitter-for-student-journalists/#comment-37 Facebook updates - nice idea! The trick you're missing is the flexibility of Twitter. Facebook is your identity - and on one is going to become your friend based on updates they can't see anyway. Twitter is just the updates, searchable, browsable, social, and most importantly: deliverable to mobiles. You can also aggregate feeds. Take a look at the aggregated collection of tweets that I made and you can see how it might work. OH, and since I wrote that two more students started twittering, so only a few left... Facebook updates - nice idea!
The trick you’re missing is the flexibility of Twitter. Facebook is your identity - and on one is going to become your friend based on updates they can’t see anyway.
Twitter is just the updates, searchable, browsable, social, and most importantly: deliverable to mobiles. You can also aggregate feeds.
Take a look at the aggregated collection of tweets that I made and you can see how it might work.
OH, and since I wrote that two more students started twittering, so only a few left…

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