Comments on: Twitter as a news tool: A case study

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 21:33:30 +0000

[...] up in the Blagojevich debacle. And the Colonel Tribune account clearly helps the paper, I think, if past events are anything to go [...]

By: mathewi

mathewi — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:01:07 +0000

Very cool indeed, Daniel. Thanks for the comment — and for being a long-time Globe and Mail fan as well :-)

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:39:30 +0000

Matthew – It's really cool how we were able to use Twitter to break the story, and that people actually thought of contacting us.

On a personal note, I went to school in Buffalo, and I always looked forward to my forays over to Toronto, where I picked up the Globe and Mail!

By: mathewi

mathewi — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:01:07 +0000

Very cool indeed, Daniel. Thanks for the comment — and for being a long-time Globe and Mail fan as well :-)

By: Jasonp107

Jasonp107 — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 07:23:41 +0000

Examples like this are becoming more and more common. I recently saw a list (I forget where) of all newspapers that have twitter accounts and are using them.

More importantly, many newsrooms have people *watching* their twitter accounts and are therefore able to respond and react to incoming tweets…