Daily Archives: August 21, 2008

The Statesman tide floods Twitter

As a newspaper, we started Twittering in earnest in June. Since then, we have expanded a little.

Here’s my unofficial tally (I could be probably am missing some):

@statesman – Official Twitter of statesman.com. I post on this feed mainly, with help from statesman.com staff when I’m out.
@austin360 – Official Twitter of Austin360.com. Gary Dinges, the site’s entertainment editor, leads the charge.
@bevobeat – Longhorn news. This is an RSS feed with occasional human posts.
@omarg – Our tech culture reporter. Has been Twittering longest in the newsroom. If you don’t follow him, what are you waiting for?
@broylesa – Addie Broyles, our food writer. She hosts Tweetups once a month to talk food. Mixes personal Tweets with beat-related material.
@taratrower – Mama Drama’s top blogger.
@davedoo – Williamson County bureau chief – mostly Tweets about Willco news.
@melaniespencer – design and style guru.
@lillyrockwell – business reporter who blogs about Whole Foods
@isadoravail – Williamson County reporter – mix of personal/business Tweets
@outandabout – Michael Barnes’ society Twitter.
@tplohetski – Our ace crime reporter
@sarahlindner – Features editor with a great Twitter touch.
@jvic – Morning crime reporter.
@suzhalliburton – Longhorns football beat writer.
@andreeball – Andrea Ball, who covers local charities.
@expat_aggie – Sue Whaley, Aggie extraordinaire who is also a copy editor.
@kdrobbins – Our golf writer
@crit – Our web developer.
@robquig – My personal Twitter
@robv – Our interactive graphic designer
@djroe – Features design guru.
@scottmladd – Lead news designer chiefly responsible for the cool print redesign we did a while back.
@archana – A-List photographer

And coming soon (you can start following now)

@360acl – Our ACL Fest Twitter account

@aaspreps – High school football Twitter.

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