There’s a simple reason I don’t like people to pitch stories to me via Twitter.
I sometimes miss them.
Thank you and have a nice day.
Twitter, without a doubt, is an important communications tool. Every journalist at the Daily News Journal is now on Twitter and uses it regularly.
It is useful when dealing with journalists. The article Fifteen Ways to Use Twitter to Build an Army of Adoring Journalists on Spin Sucks offers some great advice on how to use Twitter to build connections with reporters.
The problem I have is I sometimes miss things on Twitter. It’s not intentional, but items move through the feed so fast that it is difficult to keep up sometimes, especially if someone I don’t know says something.
A while back the member of a band that used to run around Murfreesboro suggested to me, through Twitter, that we do a story.
The problem is I missed the suggestion, so he then posted with the hashtag #icanreadthetealeaves. I’ve inserted below a screenshot of some of our exchange, but unfortunately, the top post you see is the first post of his I read.
Sounds like it could be a fun story, and we’ll revisit Rockets Red Glare in the near future, but it was a revisiting that was almost it.
Key lessons? One, I need to check Twitter more often. Second, email (cmorgan@dnj.com) remains the best way to go when you want to pitch me a story.
Of course, in the grand tradition of this post, you can follow me on Twitter at @clay_morgan.