Twitter tips and info hope

You may be doing all of the right things on Twitter: talking to other people, re-Tweeting folks, posting links to interesting Web sites and being helpful in general, but you may want to boost your visibility. (If anything, it may earn you a bit of breathing room with your bosses, who wonder why the hell you’re spending your time on Twitter.)

Their success – the site now covers a number of US cities – showcases a cost-efficient way of delivering useful information to readers direct from the source. After all, the sources of this information are the very sources that journalists traditionally go to. One attractive scenario that comes to mind here is to use this cost-effective means to deliver nuts and bolts reporting, freeing resources to support more considered and analytical reporting to run alongside.