The journalists making sense of Omicron on Twitter
As the Omicron variant takes hold in the UK and Covid-19 threatens to ‘cancel Christmas’
What would a video feed bring to Twitter?
Twitter’s new feature Twitter is testing a vertical video feed, according to its Twitter Support
How to scrape open data and tweet it using a bot with R
A how to guide on scraping open data, plotting it on a graph then automatically posting it as a tweet using R.
Everything you need to know about TweetDeck
New to social media journalism? Use this beginner’s guide to TweetDeck for journalists and learn all of the best tips and tricks to improve your Twitter experience.
5 vital tools for journalists to improve their Twitter
Looking to improve your Twitter profile? Here are all the tools that journalists need to
I built a House of Lords Twitter bot
I stayed up all night making a House of Lords Twitter bot. Here’s exactly how I did it.
How local news organisations engage communities with social media
Social media is often viewed as the enemy of local news and for good reason:
The essential guide to sharing your story on social media
Social media is all about visibility, but the key for digital journalists is realising that
How to live-tweet so your audience doesn’t miss a thing
I spent a weekend covering huge environmental protests, and these are the 13 things I
12 data journalists you need to follow on Twitter
Data journalism is gaining importance in our day and age. Increasingly, readers look to data journalists for statistics and facts to find the ‘truth’ of a story.
Anatomy of a Twitter thread: is long-form tweeting great for journalism?
Twitter is often linked to journalism for two reasons. Firstly, its real-time nature makes it
Social Media for Journalists: Making a case for Facebook
There is one clear fact about journalism and social media, i.e. Twitter is the ‘Holy
What WhatsApp’s end-to-end encryption means for journalism and how to use app
The last time I checked, WhatsApp was not one of the most popular social media apps
How to live tweet an event
Why live tweet? Share: If you’re interested in an event you’re attending, the chances are
Five things we learnt from October’s Hacks/Hackers London
October’s edition of Hacks/Hackers was a bustling affair held at Twitter’s London HQ. Organised by
Using Twitter Well: The Strange Case of J.K Rowling and Wings Over Scotland
Twitter, rather than existing as an amorphous abstract cloud of individual opinions, links and gifs,
Sociotope brings your online identity to life
While browsing data visualisations on Pinterest the other day, I came across an interesting-looking tool:
Our favourite #AdviceForYoungJournalists
If you were on Twitter yesterday, you probably noticed the trending hashtag #AdviceForYoungJournalists, which was sparked off by a
A social media style guide for local newspapers
Declining print circulations, traditionalism, internal politics, a small budget. These are problems that don’t just
6 tools for measuring social media success
Lies, damned lies and statistics – everyone knows this famously pithy quote often attributed to