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By: Ultimate guide to Twitter tools and resources for journalists | New Media Bytes | Online journalism, web production and promotion

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:16:41 +0000

[...] Ann Marie Cox: Washington Bureau editor of Time online. Formerly of Wonkette. Has funny insights. (via BuzzMachine) [...]

By: Need primaries coverage? Use Twitter to find it | New Media Bytes | Online journalism, web and intertubiness

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:09:18 +0000

[...] started following Ana Marie Cox (Washington Editor of Time.com) after reading a recommendation by Jeff Jarvis, and my updates showed that she traveled to Michigan and was covering the primaries. This was cool [...]

By: the constant skeptic

the constant skeptic — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:36:02 +0000

thanks for the recommendation, twitter evolves as the world evolves… organically, chaotically… can’t wait to see it in a year or so.

By: Bas

Bas — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:54:13 +0000

John Dickerson, from Slate, also covers the various campaigns on Twitter: http://twitter.com/jdickerson

By: at Citizen Jake

at Citizen Jake — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:38:57 +0000

[...] to Jeff Jarvis’ recommendation I’ve subscribed to Ana Marie Cox’s Twitter feed and I’m quite enjoying it. She is [...]

By: Jake

Jake — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 06:47:39 +0000

Thanks for recommending this Jeff. I’ve been following it since you did and really been enjoying it. She’s quite witty.

By: sonya

sonya — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 05:40:17 +0000

I think she’s making excellent use of the medium in a way that is obviously entertaining to a lot of people. It doesn’t have to be the right way, or the way it should be used, or make everyone chuckle to be a good usage of a newish tool.

By: Josette

Josette — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 07:20:38 +0000

AMC on Twitter is truly epic. I always wondered how Melanie Thorton from “Dog Days” would operate in a Web 2.0 world, and now I know!

By: Jeff Jarvis

Jeff Jarvis — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:02:24 +0000

Jeesh,
Isn’t it too soon and too closed and too snooty to dictate an orthodoxy for the tool? I think she’s using it interestingly as she is on the road. You don’t like how she’s using it? then don’t follow her. That’s the beauty of Twitter, eh?

By: Squidoo Lens of the Day » Blog Archive » Macg33ks, this one’s for you.

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:01:42 +0000

[...] should insert here a nod to Jeff Jarvis’s post today about peeking in on the campaign trail in the same [...]

By: Adam Lipkin

Adam Lipkin — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:54:14 +0000

Jaap, I’m totally with you on the idea that the creators don’t get to decide how it’s used.

That said, why do some users have any say in how others should use it?

The only thing more boring than reading a bunch of “my dog just licked me” updates (the original intent of Twitter, essentially) is reading a bunch of half-conversations.

AMC is using Twitter as a micro-publishing medium, which is interesting. Who cares if she doesn’t follow people back (and I say this as a long-time Livejournal user, very aware of the social forum need to have one’s “friends” be mutual).

By: Adam Lipkin

Adam Lipkin — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:49:02 +0000

I’m guessing that AMC might have been watching this Jim Gaffigan video when she made her bacon twit.

By: Jaap Stronks

Jaap Stronks — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:37:25 +0000

Not one of her last 100 tweets is conversational (beginning with @[username]. Plus, she only follows 1 out of 7 people who follow her. That’s not how Twitter is supposed to be used (which is not something that the creators of the service get to decide: Twitter’s tag line is “What are you doing?”; some people argue that it should be “what are you thinking?”, but it really should be “talk to people”. You do that by listening and responding to other people).