Five tips for reporting with Twitter

Real-time communication over the web through Twitter has had an enormous impact on journalism. Twitter is becoming an increasingly valuable tool for reporting. It started out as a simple alarm bell. One tweet about an accident was a wake-up call for journalists to follow-up on the topic and/or get in touch with tweeps on location. Think, for example, about the plane crash on the Hudson River, or the tweets from Cairo’s Tahrir Square.
Journalists now have more and better tools to monitor and check tweets. But how do you use these tools for good reporting with Twitter?
Published on Memeburn http://memeburn.com/2011/10/five-tips-for-reporting-with-twitter/