I hope. Setting up Twitter Tool is getting me a daily digest of my tweets posted here, which I wanted, but alao generating another tweet about my digest of tweets to Twitter, which i didn’t want as that’s just getting silly. Settings say not to do that; it’s doing it anyway. Time to hack.
Twitter also about to play a larger role (but not much) in my job as I begin sending tweets for breaking news, polls, quick hit news blurbs, and other stuff to my paper’s account, @dbnewsjournal . Had a lot of fun explaining (along with the younger reporters who already Twitter) to management what, exactly, Twitter is and what it’s for and how it could possibly help our traffic. Hey, all the cool kids are doing it…
So now I get to search for the elusive balance between promotional tool and actual useful I-want-to-follow-this Twitter account for my job, which I’m actually kinda looking forward to. What makes a useful Twitter feed if it’s not one of your friends or a celebrity you want to casually stalk?
This could almost be fun. 🙂
I keep trying to persuade our staff and management that we should use Twitter at work, but so far nobody really gets it. We do have a Flickr page now and I believe one event on Facebook, but really Twitter would be ideal for us. (I just don’t want them following me, which is one reason my privacy settings are so high!)