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Love & hate

Another test of the Twitter search widget – a live search for people tweeting “I love” or “I hate”. Feel the love. Or hate. ...

People tweeting about social media – live!

Have just noticed that Twitter has beefed up its widgets, so thought I’d test drive it with a live search for people tweeting about “social media”. If all has gone well, you should see it below. Doesn’t work! / Not bad at all. ...

Monitoring the media for “newspaper industry” stories

Like many working in the media, I have a great deal of interest in the - ah-hem - challenges the newspaper industry currently has to deal with. For a few months I’ve been monitoring this informally here and there: a saved search for “newspaper industry” on Tweetdeck, a Google Al...

Media people on Twitter: Lee Hall, digital editor, Sunderland Echo

That’s right, more UK media people share their Twitter tips. This time: Lee Hall, digital editor of the Sunderland Echo. Do you recall your first tweet? I don’t. As with most first time encounters I messed it up a bit, wasn’t too sure whether I was any good at it and came back t...

Media people on Twitter: Sarah Booker, digital and social media editor, Worthing Herald and Chichester Observer

More Twitter tips from UK media people, this time from Sarah Booker, digital and social media editor for the Worthing Herald series and Chichester Observer series. Do you recall your first tweet? Not off the top of my head, but looking back I discovered I wrote “working” - my traditio...

Media people on Twitter: Ben LaMothe, founder of Grand Central Magazine and CityOnline Magazine