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Twitter tools for journalists
My name is Graham Holliday. I am the digital media editor at the Frontline Club, a media trainer, blogger and journalist.
Search for tweets coming from a particular town or city, see who’s popular, what links, photos and videos are being shared in that location.
Take photos and post them to Twitter.
A wiki list of Twitter applications for mobile phones. Tweetie is the best iPhone application I have come across. You do have to pay a small amount for it though.
You can plug an RSS feed directly into your Twitter account using Twitterfeed often used to feed blog post update automatically into Twitter.
With just 140 characters to play with, you’ll need a url shortener when you want to post links. Bit.ly is excellent and allows you monitor who is clicking the links, how many times and who is retweeting your links
Try Google real time search to check out the latest tweets on any story, updated in real time, with popular links and most popular Twitter updates listed on the right hand side. You can also check back using the graphic timeline to see when the story first broke.
An excellent website for searching Twitter and monitoring keywords, conversations and breaking news.
An excellent desktop application for posting tweets, following, searching, monitoring keywords, replies and direct messages.