Comments on: TG Daily: McCain Twitterview – attempting the impossible http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2009/03/19/tg-daily-mccain-twitterview-attempting-the-impossible/ Online journalism news Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:39:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Tom Spender http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2009/03/19/tg-daily-mccain-twitterview-attempting-the-impossible/comment-page-1/#comment-11315 Tom Spender Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:07:25 +0000 http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/?p=9067#comment-11315 Hi - I've conducted short interviews via Twitter but I would say it is more useful for finding people to interview in the first place or for a speculative Q&A that might then lead me to ask for a phone number and have a proper chat around a subject. I think the 140 character limit makes you much more likely to miss out on much of the peripheral info that might lead you onto something new and interesting, which is where many great stories come from. The Israeli consulate in New York held a Twitter citizen's press conference during the conflict in the Gaza Strip in January but the format was widely felt to have been somewhat limited for offering proper answers about what was going on and why... http://comops.org/journal/2009/01/12/why-israels-twitter-experiment-flopped/ Hi – I’ve conducted short interviews via Twitter but I would say it is more useful for finding people to interview in the first place or for a speculative Q&A that might then lead me to ask for a phone number and have a proper chat around a subject. I think the 140 character limit makes you much more likely to miss out on much of the peripheral info that might lead you onto something new and interesting, which is where many great stories come from.

The Israeli consulate in New York held a Twitter citizen’s press conference during the conflict in the Gaza Strip in January but the format was widely felt to have been somewhat limited for offering proper answers about what was going on and why…

http://comops.org/journal/2009/01/12/why-israels-twitter-experiment-flopped/

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