[...] Thornton goes over the importance of Twitter for him as a reporting tool, and offers advice to get others to follow you. He also introduces [...]

Really great video, Patrick.

I posted a link to it on a board full of journalists I know, who are trying to get up-to-speed on all kinds of new media.

Thanks so much for taking the time to do this.

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Hi Pat, thanks for doing this! I was going to do something similar but for beginners. I just don’t have a) the software for screencasts or b) the time.

But I wanted to say a couple of things:

* You skipped a huge huge part of search.twitter.com: the Advance Search! That to me is the most powerful part of the site. The fact that you can choose search words AND search within x miles of a location makes it just that much more useful. If I were beat blogging environmental issues in the Austin area, it wouldn’t do me much good to just search “environment.”

* Because the screencast cuts off the address bar, we couldn’t see the URL for TweetDeck. Naturally you can Google it separately and find that it’s at tweetdeck.com, but this has happened in a previous screencast too, and it wasn’t that easy to deduce what you were doing. I’d prefer (if you can) to zoom out so we can see what tabs you have open.

In any case, though, this was a useful screencast and I can’t wait until you release a beginner’s guide to Twitter for journalists. I want to show others how useful the site is, but that “Twitter in Plain English” video just isn’t cutting it.

[...] Screencast: How to use Twitter for reporting | BeatBlogging.Org Patrick Thornton explains how Twitter can be a legitimate reporting tool. (tags: journalism twitter) [...]

Nice one, Pat. I was digging Twhirl quite a bit, but you might have talked me over to TweetDeck.

[...] Screencast: How to use Twitter for reporting – Beatblogging.org: "This screencast goes over how I use Twitter for reporting. This is not a beginner video, but many newcomers to Twitter will be able to watch this and quickly understand what is going on." [...]

[...] peers aren’t doing any better. The CICM post has good tips on how to use Twitter. We have a screencast on how to use Twitter for reporting, and here is a list of reasons why Twitter makes sense for [...]

More please

But not just about Twitter – other useful tools you use as well.

Thanks for spending time on doing this video.

[...] you’re new to Twitter, I recommend checking out our first screencast on Twitter, “How to use Twitter for reporting.” We have a Twitter 101 screencast coming [...]

[...] Thornton (@jiconoclast), editor and lead writer of BeatBlogging.org, posted a great how-to video outlining the tools he uses for Twitter for reporting, finding story ideas, monitoring beat [...]

[...] Thornton (@jiconoclast), editor and lead writer of BeatBlogging.org, posted a great how-to video outlining the tools he uses for Twitter for reporting, finding story ideas, monitoring beat [...]

[...] only people new to Twitter, but also for people looking to get better at it. Also, check out our screencast on using Twitter for reporting. It’s one of the easiest ways to learn how to use [...]

[...] However, one of the main professions that seems to be using social media are journalists.  I have several friends from both USC and Tennessee that are on Twitter that are in journalism, and it is interesting to see how they use this social medium.  Here is a good article from Mashable that provides a guide for journalists that want to use Twitter.  From creating social networks with other journalists online to providing the right media tools to providing insightful videos on how to use Twitter to report stories. [...]

[...] is a phenomenal powerful reporting tool. We have a tutorial that will help you learn how to use Twitter as a reporting [...]

Thanks so much for the video. Really learned a lot. Still cannot #fing #figure #out #why #the #hashtag???

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