Better Late Than Never, NY Times Now Twitters
By Don | August 19, 2008
They may struggle to sell advertising and newspapers but at least the NY Times has caught on by joining twitter.
From FishbowlNY.
As some of you may know, FBNY has an intermittently active twitter feed. And every time some nice soul (usually named "John Smith" or the like) decides to sign up as one of our followers we get an email announcing the new member. Today however, there was a whole new sort of arrival on the scene.
Apparently, the NYT Co. has a twitter and they are following us (which means among other things that they are aware of our random Gossip Girl encounter yesterday — we aim to inform!). But what is the NYT Co. doing with a twitter feed? We took a look and discovered that it appears to be relatively new: thus far they've made 13 updates, acquired 31 followers, and are following 71 people (wow, we made the top 100). Thus far it's mostly news and links.
This won’t stem the decline of the paper, but it may add a few new online readers. There is also a twitter feed for the Times’ arts, science and travel sections.
The bigger challenge may be that twitter only allows 140 characters at a time. Can anyone at the Times write that little and still make sense?
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August 26 at 4:26 pm | #1 | Link
I’m so terribly, terribly sorry that the “fair”, “unbiased”, “civic-minded” NYT is declining. Yes indeedy, very sorry, very, very sorry. No, really, I mean it. I really, really mean it. (Sob).