This isn't a post-beans during the BBQ question...tweeting is the quick-hit text craze spanning web and mobile using Twitter, the latest hot product in social media. If you are on Twitter chances are you follow or are followed, you might even twitpic and if truly advanced you even know how to retweet (RT) and how to use hashtags (#) to organize your tweets.
The journalism world is conflicted on tweeting; is it primarily promotional or does it have serious news delivery value? The Kent State beer blowout in the past month allowed student media at KSU to effective use Twitter to tweet information students with cell phones could easily use, a great example of the public service in breaking news anyone with a smartphone can use. The University of Akron even uses tweets to tell drivers where parking is most available. Some media organizations, however, quickly fill up their tweets with dozens of stories purely designed to promote a click to the mother website rather than provide useful information-on-the-go.The social side of Twitter can be as banal as "I'm walking out of the coffee shop now..." but there are plenty of moments where it is absolute glee reading the little things that make up our lives. In this case, I'm showing the tweets from my friend Steve Scott (@SteveScottWCBS on Twitter), the afternoon anchor of WCBS 880 in New York.
His series of tweets from Newark Airport as he prepares for a Memorial Day weekend trip to Chicago are priceless, offering a slice of life's great irony we can all relate to. It isn't breaking news -- but I have to give a tip of the tweet cap to Steve for creativity and using Twitter in a fashion both amusing and soooo New York.
SteveScottWCBSi will say this. My Breakfast Cheese Steak Wrap is really good.about 2 hours ago from mobile web
SteveScottWCBSThey just got their food. Server: "Here. Eat fast."about 2 hours ago from mobile web
SteveScottWCBSIt continues. Customer at nearby table: Is our food coming soon? We have to board soon. Server: You shoulda got here earlier!about 2 hours ago from mobile web
SteveScottWCBSMore fork: Server, as she grabs fork off adjacent dirty table: "They didn't use this one."about 2 hours ago from mobile web
SteveScottWCBSWow. Ever have a server who should owe YOU a tip at the end of the meal?about 2 hours ago from mobile web
SteveScottWCBSMe: Can I have a fork, please? Server: You ordered a wrap. Me: Is that a "no?"about 2 hours ago from mobile web
SteveScottWCBS"Dick Clark's A-B Grill" at #EWR: F-I-L-T-H-Y! And don't even THINK about getting a glass of water!about 2 hours ago from mobile web
Note to @self never eat at Dick Clark's A-B Grill" at #EWR :-)
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