@import url("http://graphicdesignr.net/docs/table.css"); Greatest increase in followers St. Louis Post-Dispatch @tonymess 1,350.00 percent Newsday @newsday_politic 1,026.67 percent Chicago Sun-Times @cst_people 992.68 percent Dayton Daily News @wine_markfisher 850.00 percent Dayton Daily News @food_markfisher 500.00 percent St. Louis Post-Dispatch @jakewagman 403.85 percent Austin American-Statesman @bevobeat 236.93 percent Indianapolis Star @indystar_biz 225.00 percent Dayton Daily News @chickludwig 218.18 percent [...]
Folks have created some fun election-related Web sites: Fold US Candidate: All of your favorite political characters as finger puppets Palin as President: Click around, see what you can find. Something new is added every day until the election. Yes We Carve: Carve a Barack o’ lantern, win an iPod. (The Associated Press has pumpkin [...]
@import url("http://graphicdesignr.net/docs/table.css"); Forget the chit-chat, let’s get right to it: Greatest increase in followers The Charleston Gazette @gazette_opinion 875 percent Chicago Sun-Times @suntimes 588.06 percent Seattle Post-Intelligencer @bigblog 351.85 percent Chicago Sun-Times @cst_couch 320 percent St. Louis Post-Dispatch @gostl 300 percent Atlanta Journal-Constitution @bestofthebiga 257.14 percent New York Times @vindugoel 193.33 percent Chicago Sun-Times @cst_marin [...]
The Grand Island Independent, a small paper in Nebraska, has been on Twitter for almost a year. In the last month, @theindependent has more than doubled its number of followers. Web editor Stephanie Romanski tells how: I turned off The Independent’s Twitterfeed on Sept. 17th on the advice of @robquig. Instead I have been tweeting [...]
On Wednesday, the Austin American-Statesman started a new Twitter account to track Hurricane Ike: @trackingike. Reporters Marty Toohey, Tony Plohetski and Patrick George, and photographer/videographer Jorge Sanhueza-Lyon (who Twittered about Hurricane Gustav as @trackinggustav; he has renamed the account @digitaljournals) all updated @trackingike from Corpus Christi, Houston, Galveston, Beaumont. Internet editor Robert Quigley provided updates, [...]
