Twitter for Journalist

What's your twitter account?

This question is commonly used in Indonesia when people meet each other. No wonder, Indonesia is the third populous twitter users in the world after USA and Brazil.

Since the first time it was launched. Twitter has became one of the very famous social networking after facebook. Many people used this social networking. From younger to the older, from the student to the teacher, from ordinary people to the President, and from mafia syndicate to the journalist.

For the context of journalism, at least there were two reasons why the Twitter is useful for a journalist. First, twitter can be a used a s a tool to spread the writing. Through Twitter, journalists can disseminate his writings by putting the link of his writing as an update status. In order to make the readers interested on reading that link, the Twitter status must be as attractive as possible.

Second, twitter can be the tool to absorb an information. Through facebook, a journalist can absorb an information not only from society but also any other media as reference. For example; White House, FOX, BBC, NBC, or even Wikileaks. By following media or institutions account, it facilitates a journalist to obtain the information.