Now Twitter is trying to encourage us all to be Stelters, with the company publishing guidelines designed to help journalists — traditional, new media, professional, citizen — or any other kind yet to be coined — to use the platform effectively. As Twitter itself explains: We want to make our tools easier to use so you can focus on your job: finding sources, verifying facts, publishing stories, promoting your work and yourself — and doing all of it faster and faster all the time.
Twitter for Newsrooms, which went live last week at media.twitter.com/newsrooms, is split into four main categories, starting with Report
, which shows how to use Twitter’s advanced search functions and includes case studies on how reporters have used it to find and verify sources for stories — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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