Category: Twitter

• Dave Winer says…

  Dave Winer weighs in on why Twitter needs to move beyond 140 characters. Twitter is the tool of choice for journalists and as tech limits change (like SMS limits,) our tools change, too. ”..all products in a space eventually get the features of all the other products…If Buick adds a radio, then so must Dodge […]

  Barbara Iverson

  January 6, 2016

  Social network, Twitter

  social networks, Twitter

• From New Roles for Journalists (Tumblelog)

  http://biverson.tumblr.com/js

  Barbara Iverson

  May 31, 2011

  Disruptive Tech, Future of News, Technology, Twitter

• Check-In Fatigue was my reaction to SXSW, too.

  Image by waynesutton12 via Flickr TechCrunch blogger M.G. Siegler was at SXSW and reports on something I experienced too at SXSW. “Check-in fatigue” happens when you are trying to use location-based software to let your friends know where you are in real-space. So in theory, you arrive somewhere, and quickly “check-in” via your smartphone. You […]

  Barbara Iverson

  March 21, 2010

  Disruptive Tech, Social network, Twitter

• BreakingTweets? No, it’s Twitter Itself

  This new feature is a nice fillip on Twitter, but it could be better. If it automatically located you, so you always got what was happening around you instead of what you said your home city was, it might be a very valuable ad-hoc guide to wherever you're opening your laptop. That would require the […]

  Barbara Iverson

  January 30, 2010

  Technology, Twitter

  breakingtweets, Geolocation, HTML, Social network, TweetDeck, Twitter, Twitter.com

• Craig Kanalley, Editor, on BreakingTweets at Six Months

  Originally, Breaking Tweets was to be nothing more than a personal blog, telling a few major stories around the world every day through the use of Twitter. It blossomed into something so much more. It’s been 750 posts, 6,000 featured tweets, and 150,000 unique visitors (320,000 pageviews) from 194 countries since then — and more […]

  Barbara Iverson

  August 3, 2009

  Crowdsourcing, Education & Pedogogy, Future of News, New media, Twitter

  breakingtweets, news

• PoliticsBlog: Obama in Ghana

  Image by Monde Perso via Flickr From Politcs Online comes this cool heads-up. Now, if only our local pols would do this when they have information to share. What have Illinois pols got to fear from this? Let them answer that question. Mr. Mayor? What about transparency like this in the City? In preparation for […]

  Barbara Iverson

  July 10, 2009

  Education & Pedogogy, Social network, Technology, Telecommunications, Twitter

  communication, ghana, obama, open government, resources

• BreakingTweets.com blocked in Iran reports Editor Craig Kanalley

  I updated a Poynter E-Media Tidbits story about BreakingTweets last week, and now BreakingTweet’s founder and editor, Craig Kanalley, reports that it has been blocked in Iran. As I’ve written, BreakingTweets is a great combination of human and computer to produce news from Twitter that you can see at a glance. The BreakingTweets editor does […]

  Barbara Iverson

  June 29, 2009

  Citizen journalism, Disruptive Tech, Future of News, News biz, Politics in Media Matters, Technology, Twitter

• “Tinkering” around with Tweets about the White Sox

  Image by biverson via Flickr Check out my new widget, created with “Tinker” which let’s you specify a twitter search term, in this case “white sox opener” and then it will collect all the tweets on that subject. People can follow the event, too. I am not sure yet how to do the White Sox […]

  Barbara Iverson

  March 31, 2009

  Twitter

  Baseball, Chicago White Sox, Social Networking, tech, Tools, Twitter

• More on twittering than I have time to write

  I like what Paul Bradshaw writes in general, and this compendium of the ways journalists can use twitter is one example To others it’s a social networking tool for contacts and leads, a project management tool or a research tool for developing stories.In other words it is what you make it – and the only […]

  Barbara Iverson

  May 15, 2008

  Social network, Twitter

  chicago, Paul Bradshaw, Social network, Twitter

• Twitter and Journalism in early 2008

  Journalism consists of multiple activities, from the long form to spot news. These may require different tool sets, authoring styles, talents, etc. I want to address the journalism news function of reporting breaking news, from a fire to a press conference, to any live event. Key to reporting live events, is time. How immediate can […]

  Barbara Iverson

  March 8, 2008

  Citizen journalism, Future of News, Journalism, Twitter

  Citizen journalism, jarvis, Journalism, qik.live, qik.live video, scoble, Twitter, video