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 [...]

Op-Ed: How the Statesman uses Twitter

Just hours after Hurricane Ike roared ashore over Galveston Island, American-Statesman journalists Tony Plohetski, Jorge Sanhueza-Lyon and Jay Janner sat in their rental car on the north side of the I-45 causeway looking at a scene they will likely never forget.
12 p.m. Sept. 13: We’re at the Causeway at Galveston Island. It’s a MESS. The [...]

Evangelizing Twitter

Here are excerpts from an e-mail I wrote to another online editor last night who is going through a hard time convincing her staff to embrace Twitter (and the Web in general). I hope my advice works for her.
Hi!
I’ve been reading your blog, so I know pretty much what you’ve been going through.
Here’s how it [...]

Tracking Ike on Twitter with @TrackingIke

It has been 48 hours since we made our first post on @TrackingIke. It feels like 48 days.
I’m working as mission control here in Austin for the Twitter count that I set up to serve as a vehicle for our Hurricane Ike coverage. I’m worn out; but I think it has all been worth it.
First [...]

Twitter politics

As a member of the mainstream media, I have to be careful about exposing my politics. I am representing the American-Statesman 24/7. That’s tough. I have opinions. I even have political opinions. But I have to keep them to myself, even on Twitter. As I’ve watched the Democrat and Republican conventions, I’ve had to keep [...]

Twitter, welcome to the mainstream

Hurricane Gustav has and will put Twitter in the spotlight like never before. There’s no better social media tool out there to mass communicate news – and now we have a big story to give it a boost.
CNN has been playing up its Twittering efforts frequently during the storm. CNN’s Rick Sanchez is leading the [...]

The Statesman tide floods Twitter

The American-Statesman is all over Twitter. I list a directory of sorts so you know who to follow.

Who is missing from Twitter?

Not many corporations or public officials have figured Twitter out yet. It’s probably too early for it to be too late, but it does make me wonder: Who do I wish would get addicted to Twitter? And I mean full-out, real-person, unable-to-do-their-regular-job because-they’re-tweeting-Twittering. I don’t mind the idea of Twitter filling up with corporations. Why? [...]

Twittering the news the right way

When I started Twittering as @statesman, I immediately looked around to see how this is being done. Surely, I wasn’t reinventing the wheel, right?
After a quick Google search, I found this blog by Erica Smith that keeps track of newspapers that Twitter. I was surprised to see that many newspapers had a Twitter account. What [...]