I wrote a post about getting the scoop via Twitter the other day and have found another great service that reporters should know about. It’s called Twemes and allows you to track in real time what people are Twittering about by topic. Not only on Twitter but also on Del.icio.us and Flickr.
Simply input a hashtag plus the topic into your 140 character Twitter bar (like #reportwitters), Twitter about it and find the results back on Twemes, plus those of Flickr and Del.icio.us. That’s brilliant if you need the absolute latest news on a topic.
What both services’ weakness is, is that you need to be extremely certain that you picked the right tag to track something. For instance, how do you follow a breaking news story for which the obvious Hashtag is not really clear? It’s a gamble. But then, that’s breaking news for you.
BeatBlogging.org was a grant-funded journalism project that studied how journalists used social media and other Web tools to improve beat reporting. It ran for about two years, ending in the fall of 2009.
New content is occasionally produced here by the this project's former editor Patrick Thornton. The site is still up and will remain so because many journalists and professors still use and link to the content. BeatBlogging.org offers a fascinating glimpse into the former stages of journalism and social media. Today it's expected that journalists and journalism organization use social media, but just a few years ago that wasn't the case.
I wrote a post about getting the scoop via Twitter the other day and have found another great service that reporters should know about. It’s called Twemes and allows you to track in real time what people are Twittering about by topic. Not only on Twitter but also on Del.icio.us and Flickr. 
