One of the reasons I love Twitter is as a source of news. You can apply using Twitter as a news source in a range of ways.
- To set up a search term relating to your industry for instance “executive coaching, coaching supervision” etc
- To find out information about a sector – financial services, law etc
- Another good way is to watch out for hashtags being used about news events, conferences and discussions.
- You can use Twitter search to find relevant conversations
- Keep up to date with people you know to stay connected with relevant information in your personal network
And it doesn’t have to be about work – I have used it personally in the last few days to find out the reason why there was huge overcrowding on the Virgin Trains journey I was on sunday (after no announcements on the train itself), and today to use the #tubestrike hashtag to find out what the state of the tubes and buses were for getting into central London. Yes – you may need to double check your data (depending on what you want to use it for) however like anything – check your source, and make your assessment. On a live event like the tube strike it is particularly useful as it gives a real time update from people out and about in the city which actually helps to “validate” the offinal news with on the ground updates.
How are you using Twitter to stay up to date?
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