Summaries of the key points from each session, as captured by TWTRCON DC 09 attendee tweets on October 22. (With RTs and #twtrcon’s removed.)
Can Twitter Save the Newspaper?
- Alan Murray, Deputy Managing Editor & Executive Editor Online, The Wall Street Journal (@alansmurray)
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@debbieweil: @alansmurray uses Twitter as a ‘news filter’ – he follows about 200 people who give him info he needs for reporting #twtrcon
@debbieweil: @alansmurray of WSJ describes himself as a Twitter enthusiast… 1st socmed platform he’s found truly useful #twtrcon
@MilitaryTweets: @alansmurray says @twitter drives new readers to @wsj – #SNS fastest growing traffic stream to wsj.com
@MtkgCords: unlike other publications @WSJ is encouraging their readers to use SoMe for news/content @alansmurray
@sniyogi: 50% of users visiting @wsj come to wsj.com, 30% google/yahoo, 15% aggregators, 5% social networks is small, but the fastest growing.
@brightmatrix: Twitter a great way to attract people to content in an increasingly deep website (@alansmurray at #twtrcon)
@Jeanne23: Alan Murray (@wsj) Don’t give leads away on Twitter! If telling people where you are going, they can scoop you.
@MilitaryTweets: @alansmurray ~ Competing paper tweeting about story, @wsj read the tweets and scooped the story!
@mdwall: @alanmurray if you are Bob Woodward going to meet with Deep Throat you probably shouldn’t tweet about it
@tracytran: @alansmurray: Twitter is not ther yet of reporting news (he uses Tehran #iranelection as an example)
@sbosm: @alansmurray: Lots of “useless noise” on Twitter. “There’s a place for news organizations to play a role in curating that info.”
@Chogo: Newspapers can be Tweet filterer too, they have tons of data to prove those Tweet is trusted or not
@hollisthomases: #TWTRCON audience member says Twitter can be a relay mechanism for citizens to provide news organizations w/in-the-field happenings.
@cuennie: WSJ to introduce lists of Twitter feeds with authoritative sources on special subject matter
@cuennie: “the truth is, this is the most exciting time for journalism that I’ve experienced in my years in the business” @wsj
@ArcusSolutions: WSJ @alansmurray used to sit in meetings discussing what readers want but “didn’t have a clue.” Twitter = clues!
@wjessewright: @wsj the #1 rule of twitter “don’t be stupid” – indeed, good advice
@sbosm: @alansmurray: Don’t pitch stories over Twitter. Use e-mail; reporters want story ideas to stay private.
