clipped from www.readwriteweb.com

How useful can communication limited to 140 characters be for serious journalism?  It turns out that the short messages you find on Twitter have proven wildly useful for some writers penning larger pieces. 

I did an interview on the BBC last week with some traditional journalists about Twitter and they scoffed at the idea that it could be useful.  "Well," one said after I talked about how we’ve used it, "I certainly won’t be checking it out."  Hmph!

The scoffers can scoff all they want, but here at RWW our use of Twitter so far has included:

• the discovery of breaking stories,
• performing interviews, 
• quality assurance 
• and promotion of our work.