Results of @statesman Twitter survey

Thanks to everyone who filled out my Twitter survey. I learned a lot in reading it, and I enjoyed every comment.
Here’s the report I sent my bosses:
I built and put out an unscientific survey of the followers of our Statesman Twitter account to get a feel for who they were and what they were thought [...]

Hook’em on Twitter

Sports editor John Bridges has been Twittering for a few weeks no on @bevobeat using his own voice. We still feed the Longhorns-related blogs on there as well because we figure people who follow that account probably can’t get enough Longhorns coverage.
Bridges, also does an excellent post-game chat using CoverItLive.
To my surprise during Saturday’s big [...]

Twitter reactions to the debate

This is a repost from my official blog on statesman.com (which I rarely use).
Last night, the presidential debate was the hot topic among TV pundits. It also was the talk on Twitter. Before, during and after the candidates’ second primetime test, people were commenting and sharing opinions on Twitter, a free-to-use microblogging service.
Using our newspaper [...]

Covering the election

We’ve now used Twitter to extensively cover two hurricanes and one Austin City Limits Music Festival. The Next Big Thing is the election. Twitter has done a good job with its Election page, and CNN and NYT will certainly do a great job covering the election.
So, the question is: what can a small metro paper [...]