The DesertBlog Twitter Experiment
May 13th, 2008 Posted by Larry Hogue in Sunrise PowerlinkI’d like to get your feedback on yesterday’s posts on Twitter from the Sunrise Powerlink hearings in Borrego Springs. It was an experiment, to say the least.
Covering an event through Twitter is a pretty new thing. Scott Beale covered the San Francisco Olympic Torch Relay protests (summary here – wisely, he kept his posts shorter than I did).
If you followed yesterday’s Twitter posts on the Sunrise Powerlink hearings, were the updates valuable? Is reading them in hindsight, either here or on Twitter, useful?
Maybe I should have scrounged up a wireless laptop and done fewer-but-longer live blog posts instead?
Your feedback is appreciated.
I’ve pasted a screenshot of yesterday’s posts below. You’ll need to read them from the bottom up to go from first to last. Apologies for the gobbledy-gook in the third and fourth posts — don’t know if that was my error with the cell phone , or some glitch with Twitter. These posts are truncated. To read the full, usually 160-character posts, go to DesertBlog’s Twitter page.
Driving home, I thought of the last tweet I should have posted: “Power to the people!”
2 Responses to “The DesertBlog Twitter Experiment”
By surfponto on May 15, 2008
Hey Larry,
I think that is a great way to update your BLOG with up to the minute quotes and thoughts.
What’s nice is that you don’t have to pull out a big clunky laptop.
Bob
By Larry Hogue on May 15, 2008
Bob, thanks for commenting!
I just need to get faster with “texting” with my thumbs, or get an iPhone, or similar. A few people did start following the Twitter posts, so maybe I’ll do more of this in the future.
-Larry