Comments on: More on Twitter as journalism http://billbennett.co.nz/2009/07/08/more-on-twitter-as-journalism/ knowledge workers - for people paid to think for a living Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:03:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: freelanceunbound http://billbennett.co.nz/2009/07/08/more-on-twitter-as-journalism/#comment-286 freelanceunbound Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:32:31 +0000 http://billbennettnz.wordpress.com/?p=2264#comment-286 I confess I am one who mainly uses Twitter as a glorified RSS feed using Tweetfeed. Mind you, it certainly works – one blog post was picked up in the Twittersphere (sorry) and gave me a huge (for me) traffic spike. I've posted about how journalists and the media love Twitter, mainly because it can give you the appearance of engaging with the digital media discussion without you having to do any work. But that's really just using something like bit.ly to post quick links to Twitter. As you say, very few journalists use it for real reporting. One key thing for me is the effort involved. I find that long-form blogging simply takes up too much time and mental space. I'm just less inclined to spend time microblogging as well (and as well as my day job). Interesting that Paul Bradshaw of the Online Journalism Blog<a href="http://twitter.com/paulbradshaw/status/2315920584" rel="nofollow"> has noted he's blogging less as he's Twittering more.</a> I confess I am one who mainly uses Twitter as a glorified RSS feed using Tweetfeed. Mind you, it certainly works – one blog post was picked up in the Twittersphere (sorry) and gave me a huge (for me) traffic spike.

I’ve posted about how journalists and the media love Twitter, mainly because it can give you the appearance of engaging with the digital media discussion without you having to do any work. But that’s really just using something like bit.ly to post quick links to Twitter. As you say, very few journalists use it for real reporting.

One key thing for me is the effort involved. I find that long-form blogging simply takes up too much time and mental space. I’m just less inclined to spend time microblogging as well (and as well as my day job).

Interesting that Paul Bradshaw of the Online Journalism Blog has noted he’s blogging less as he’s Twittering more.

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