JOURNALISM ONLINE (Paul Bradshaw): UK national newspapers have a total of 1,068,898 followers across their 120 official Twitter accounts – with the Guardian, Times and Financial Times the only three papers in the top 10. READ MORE>
Unofficial count puts UK newspaper Twitter followers at 1 million-plus
July 8, 2009 · 1 Comment
Categories: Twitter
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billbennettnz // July 8, 2009 at 8:33 am |
This makes sense to me, but the full story says that only 16 of the 120 sites do anything more than use Twitter as a glorified RSS feed.
I’ve been in a conversation with an Australian journalist on this subject at: Can Twitter be journalism? (http://billbennettnz.wordpress.com/2009/06/09/can-twitter-be-journalism/)