The Changing Face of Journalism

Today in class we talked about Twitter and how it is used for micro-journalism. Each of you was asked to look at Twitter and how it could be used in journalism. What is one use you can see for Twitter? Who are some of the famous tweeters? What could you use as a tweet name>

My personal name is MizPhipp here: http://twitter.com/MizPhipp (it updates my Facebook and is truly social media).
I tweet for the newspaper here: http://twitter.com/TimberwolfTimes
I use it to tell my sophomores their assignments here: http://twitter.com/TimpPhippEng10

Twitter uses only 140 characters, so it sends as a SMS (text). It caught on in Europe as text messaging and news. It's news driven. It is definitely news and journalistic. We'll use it to track news and look at its minute/hourly/daily news functions and how well it follows big news stories. Hopefully you will see its news capability and how well it can be used as a journalistic tool as we finish out this year.