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Teaching Online Journalism » 3,000 followers on Twitter — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:49:28 +0000

[...] March I had 1,000 followers on Twitter. Sometime earlier today, I reached [...]

By: Craig

Craig — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:38:52 +0000

According to what I heard at SXSW, this must mean that you “give good URL.”

By: Craig Kanalley

Craig Kanalley — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 06:53:11 +0000

Congrats on the 1,000 followers! It’s a fun milestone for sure – I recently reached it myself. Maybe will see you on Twitter sometime – http://twitter.com/ckanal.

By: Mindy McAdams

Mindy McAdams — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:45:56 +0000

Hi, Tom. I already follow you (smile!). Etan’s guide is very good, but that’s also not the one I recall. It had nice illustrations for each item on the list and a lot of white space — it was quite easy to read.

Not gonna follow Etan until SXSW is over!

By: Tom Burton

Tom Burton — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:21:42 +0000

Mindy,

Congrats on your Twitter popularity. I don’t know if this is the guide you remember, but Etan Horowitz, the Orlando Sentinel tech writer, has a good beginner’s guide to Twitter. You can follow him on Twitter too, @etanowitz. His tutorial is at http://tinyurl.com/amekcm.

You can also find other Sentinel twitter accounts at orlandosentinel.com/twitter. (Some are better than others). And if my goal is to catch you, I need more followers too. Follow me @osphoto.

And for the hesitant journalist, let me say one thing; I have found sources and story ideas from twitter feeds. Really.

Tom Burton
Photos Editor and Multimedia Producer
Orlando Sentinel

By: Mindy McAdams

Mindy McAdams — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 22:23:32 +0000

@Koren – You’re right, my ratio of followers to followed is about 10-to-1. A lot of the people who follow me are tweeting things I don’t need to follow, and many of them actually tweet in other languages. I can manage Spanish, but I can’t really deal with tweets in most other languages. Sometimes I follow people for about a week or two and then un-follow them. I’m fussy about signal-to-noise.

By: Koren

Koren — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 22:08:27 +0000

Hi Mindy,

Congrats on the milestone. I find it interesting that you only follow a very small portion of the 1000. Doesn’t that make the conversation — essentially what Twitter is all about — rather one-sided?

Interested to hear your thoughts on this one.

Cheers,
Koren

By: Mindy McAdams

Mindy McAdams — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 18:53:10 +0000

Thanks, Mary — I had not seen that one, and it’s quite good! But that’s not the one I remember. Dang, if only I had bookmarked it …

By: Mary McGuire

Mary McGuire — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:52:45 +0000

Congrats, Mindy. Is it possible this is the link you are looking for? I find it very helpful.

http://www.jenleereeves.com/twitter-tips/

By: Mark S. Luckie

Mark S. Luckie — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:25:38 +0000

Congrats on the milestone and thanks for the link!