Twitter for Reporting

As a followup to the Omaha 10/10/10 conference on the future of digital media, my depth reporting class talked a bit about using Twitter as a reporting tool.  My first exposure to the idea came from a 2008 On The Media story that focused on how St. Paul Pioneer Press reporter Julio Ojeda-Zapata was using Twitter as a reporter. Ojeda-Zapata has done some great reporting using Twitter, and he’s also got a couple of fun technology/geek blogs as well.