April 7, 2008
For some reason, Twitter hasn't yet taken the journalist community by storm
Out of curiosity, Charles Cooper for News.com drew up a list of 55 technology journalists to find out how many use Twitter, arguably one of the most important social-media technologies on the scene.
... My guess is that by year's end, most of the folks on the holdout list will get with the program. Not because it's necessarily an elegant system... rather, it's a question of self-interest. News often breaks on Twitter before it hits blogs. And companies are paying attention to what comes over the transom.The Twitterers
Michael Arrington, Techcrunch; Charles Cooper, CNET; Caroline McCarthy: CNET; Kara Swisher, The Wall Street Journal; Ina Fried, CNET; John Markoff, The New York Times; Om Malik, GigaOm; Duncan Riley, Techcrunch; Dan Farber, CNET; Jim Kerstetter, CNET; Sara Lacy, BusinessWeek; Elinor Mills, CNET;Maggie Reardon, CNET; Stephen Shankland, CNET; and Dan Terdiman, CNET.The Holdouts
George Anders, the Journal; Mark Boslet, San Jose Mercury News; Anne Broache, CNET Networks; Peter Burrows, BusinessWeek; Ben Charny, Dow Jones; Don Clark, the Journal; Elizabeth Corcoran, Forbes; Don Clark, the Journal; Cliff Edwards, BusinessWeek; Benny Evangelista, San Francisco Chronicle; Mary Jo Foley, ZDNet; Tom Foremski, SiliconValley Watcher; Deborah Gage, San Francisco Chronicle; Jim Goldman, CNBC; Dan Goodin. The list goes on ....
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