Newspapers that Twitter: August numbers

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1. Liz   /   September 4, 2008    #

   Interesting. I probably subscribe to over a dozen newspapers or TV stations Tweets. They vary quite a lot in what they deem important news and how quickly they get it out online.

   Ironically, the fastest news service, even for U.S. news, is Breaking News On out of the Netherlands but they sometimes don’t check their stories for accuracy and have to retract bulletins they’ve posted.

2. Daysha   /   September 4, 2008    #

   I love the fact that twitter can allow local news bubble up. It gives the readers a sense of community with their local news outlets, as well as let news outlets know what’s important to the community. Beautiful list. It must have taken forever to aggregate, and I am really appreciative of the work you put in to it. It be nice if some of these papers would stop using twitterfeed and let a live person man the tweets.

3. Danica   /   September 5, 2008    #

   Oh, for god’s sake, SF Chronicle *facepalm* It’s almost embarassing to live here. I grew up reading the Chronicle and occasionally look at it online now or over my girlfriend’s shoulder (in paper form), and it’s just ridiculous that a paper with such an active and actively-used website, in the heart of the freaking Bay Area where everything is online, can’t update its damn Twitter feed.

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   [...] mainstream journalists. And being used by them. This morning Dave Cohn links to Erica Smith’s compilation of newspapers using Twitter. It keeps growing, and so do the [...]

5. Alexis Madrigal   /   September 5, 2008    #

   No Wired.com reporters or editors? We’ve got tons of people on Twitter: @dylan20, @alexismadrigal, @jennydeluxe, @evanh2002, @bxchen, etc.

   A lot of our blogs have Twitter accounts, too: Gadget Lab, Underwire.

   Great list though!

6. Jonathan Bennett   /   September 5, 2008    #

   The Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville, Fl (@jaxdotcom) has been tweeting with a slight obsession for about two months, and we’re up to 283 followers.

   Twitter was perfect for Tropical Storm Fay when she came through - we pushed out a lot of info to Twitter, and got a lot of amazing info from our followers. At several points we used pics/video/text from our Twitter followers on the front page of Jacksonville.com as the storm blew through town.

   We love it b/c we get to talk to our audience, and our audience talks to us.

   /obsession

7. Pingback - roots.lab » Blog Archive » Newspapers on the Live Web (e.g., Twitter)   /   September 5, 2008    #

   [...] twitter pal tipped me (of course) to this exhaustive list of newspapers that have some sort of presence on twitter. The author, Erica Smith, has done a great service in pulling together such a great (and detailed) [...]

8. Peter Panepento   /   September 5, 2008    #

   The Chronicle of Philanthropy (@philanthropy) has had tremendous success with Twitter.

   We’re posting headlines, for sure, but we’re also using it to pose questions, find sources, and monitor what’s on the mind of folks in the world of philanthropy.

   I find that we’re connecting with a new audience (554 followers and growing fast) and we’re also much better able to find out what is on the minds of folks in our niche.

   The key is to make it a two-way conversation tool. We’re not just talking to folks. We’re listening.

9. David Herrold   /   September 5, 2008    #

   There are quite a few more employees of the Houston Chronicle than you have listed on this post. You can get a good list of Houston Chronicle Twitter accounts here.

   Great list, by the way!

10. Erica Smith   /   September 5, 2008    #

    Just to clarify, these are newspapers and newspaper reporters that use Twitter. I’m going to have to leave it to someone else to start tracking magazines — thanks for the info on @wired and @eonline.

    I am also trying to limit this to reporters, editors, etc., who use Twitter for work, too. (Locked accounts are difficult to use for work, so I’m not including them.) I work for a paper, but I don’t use Twitter for work, so my name’s not on the list, but co-worker Adam Jadhav — who did a fantastic job covering the Democratic and Republican national conventions — is on there. Keep sending me names of newspaper reporters that use Twitter! (Also let me know if you don’t use Twitter for work and want your name taken off the list.)

    @Liz: I stopped following @breakingnewson because of all of the retractions. I love to be among the first to know about breaking news, I just want it to be accurate.

    @Daysha and @Danica: I found two more San Francisco Chronicle accounts on Twitter last night: @philbronstein and @sfchron_sports, which are regularly updated. Maybe there’s hope that the paper will come back to @sfchron_alert?

    @Jonathan: Thanks for the tip on @jaxdotcom! It’s been added.

    In the past two days I have also added:
    Austin American-Statesman: @lorichawkins and @trackinggustav has been changed to @digitaljournals
    Chicago Sun-Times: @markymark82
    Corvallis Gazette Times: @gtnews
    Dayton Daily News: @daytondailynews
    Great Falls Tribune: @gftrib
    Helena Independent Record: @helenaironline
    Houston Chronicle: @chronsciguy, @corilyns, @dsilverman, @houstonbands, @matt_stiles and @traffichouston
    Journal Sentinel: @js_newswatch, @artcity, @js_brewers, @js_bucks, @js_packers, @js_politics, @kathleengallghr and @postcollegecook
    MinnPost: @dbrauer
    Oak Leaves: @cubreporter
    Orlando Sentinel: @ampalm, @dewayneb and @ludilelis
    St. Petersburg Times: @frinightrewind and @gregauman
    Star-News: @shanbow and @snohurricane

    Keep ‘em coming!

11. Erica Smith   /   September 5, 2008    #

    @David: You snuck in while I was was writing that last comment. Thanks for the great list of Chron accounts — that’ll keep me busy for a little while!

12. Nadine Kam   /   September 5, 2008    #

    Thanks for the update. That’s a lot of work! @fashiontribe

13. Erika Engle   /   September 5, 2008    #

    I’m a business columnist/reporter for the Honolulu Star-Bulletin and in addition to @fashiontribe, I and several of my colleagues are also on Twitter!
    @sonecessary, @digitalslob, @parkzplatz, @erikaengle

    Thanks for doing this reporting, compiling this chart, etc. Great job!

14. Robert Quigley   /   September 6, 2008    #

    Once again, Erica, great job! (I’m not just saying this because you named me).

    Newspapers (and other media) that use Twitterfeed excessively should think twice. You’re missing a huge opportunity at a time when we should be looking for every possible opportunity to connect with readers.

15. Mark Drapeau   /   September 6, 2008    #

    Could one now argue, with use of blogs, Twitter, etc., that there is “no such thing as a local newspaper”?

    I ask because it seems like all kinds of previously local stories can now be told cheaply to a world audience. Why can’t the blog stories on, say, a storm be just as great as the NYT’s equivalent story? And why can’t it go “more viral”?

    Food for thought.

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23. web design company   /   September 8, 2008    #

    ields - Killer list of mainstream media on twitter

24. Baratunde Thurston   /   September 8, 2008    #

    @theonion has been on twitter for a long while. america’s FINEST news source. long before most of these yahoos new what television was

25. Erica Smith   /   September 8, 2008    #

    @Erika: Honolulu Star-Bulletin colleagues added! Thanks!

    @Robert: Agreed. I haven’t seen CNN’s new Twitter show (but since I’m a huge nerd, I TiVo’d it!), but I hope some folks can learn from what they and folks like you and @coloneltribune are doing. (I owe the Colonel for finally teaching me how to spell c-o-l-o-n-e-l. Finally.)

    @Mark: There’s no reason a blog post can’t be just as great as a story! None! And they should be viral. It’s just taking newspapers a long, long time to come around to that way of thinking.

    @Baratunde: @theonion had 1,936 followers on Aug. 6 and 2,733 followers on Sept. 1. That’s a 41.17 percent increase — most from Twitterfeed. Not enough of an increase to break the top 10, but it has more followers than USA Today’s @popcandy.

    Other additions:
    Capital Times: @captimes and @77square
    Charleston Gazette: @marykay7
    The Gazette: @gazetteonline, @briansig, @eric_c, @gazettemojo, @matthacker, @raeriebe, @scottdochterman and @stevebuttry
    Kalamazoo Gazette: @followthemoney
    News-Gazette: @erinlippitz and @mthilmony
    Orlando Sentinel: @ampalm, @dewayneb and @ludilelis
    Pioneer Press: @pipress
    Reno Gazette-Journal: @forresthartman
    St. Louis Post-Dispatch: @arobbins
    Telegram & Gazette: @telegramwebteam

    Keep ‘em coming!

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34. Wenalway   /   September 15, 2008    #

    One major flaw with Twitter: Bad customer support. Soon someone is going to take advantage of the situation, and many people will be fooled with false messages.

    Of course, the newsroom response will be the usual: “We couldn’t have known!”

35. Stephanie Romanski   /   September 16, 2008    #

    I think using Twitterfeed is a good start for papers just getting into Twitter, and are not sure of the value of it. At the very least, it’s a way to push updates to people who want to get them on their cells without having to pay a third-party vendor to do the same thing. It also is a free way to make your paper look good by offering up something like this.

    But once you get past that, it’s time to explore its uses. My paper began with pushing out updates via Twitterfeed. As I get my newsroom interested in Twitter (an uphill battle here) I intend to use Yahoo pipes to push out their ‘live’ tweets, mixed with the regular Twitterfeed updates.

    And while we’ve always used Twitterfeed, we have also always mixed it with live updates from a real person (mostly me), especially on breaking news or special announcements.

    I just wanted to defend Twitterfeed a little :)

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41. greg harman   /   January 22, 2009    #

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42. Jc   /   January 29, 2009    #

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