Become a Birmingham Post Twitterer!

By Marc Reeves on Apr 20, 08 02:50 PM in

An interesting week for The Birmingham Post, particularly for our increasingly successful online incarnation.

We posted our highest visitor figures since the launch at the end of February, and our blogs are climbing up the Trinity Mirror rankings, giving titles much larger than the Post a run for their money.

But the potentially biggest development is our foray into the ever-changing, ever-growing world of Twitter. (I blogged on this subject last week).

As promised, we have launched our online breaking news service on Twitter - joining a very select band of regional UK papers to have done the same. If you sign up, you'll receive alerts direct to your desktop of all the main national and West Midlands news. You can also tell Twitter to send them to your mobile if you wish.

If you've gone to the trouble of reading this blog, I hope that means you're interested in what The Post is doing to develop its services, so your views on the new Twitter service are invaluable to us. Please have a look, and post your comments on this blog, email me directly, or - of course - send your feedback straight to our Twitter account.

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Pete Ashton said:

My biggest issue with the Post Twitter account is that it's too wide in scope. I'm personally not interested in getting sport or UK news on it. I would be interested in local news alerts. Possibly.

Actually what I'd really like is a Twitter feed that's like a fly on the wall in the office, which I already have with Tom, Jo and yourself. I know you guys will point me to the really important stuff.

But the problem with this sort of thing is usage is very subjective. This is what I want but not what someone else would want. Unfortunately the only answer I can think of is you guys running a dozen or more different account, which kinda defeats the object of the exercise (quick and unobtrusive publishing).

Best of luck figuring it out!

April 20, 2008 5:09 PM

clifford said:

Support what Pete has said. Too much information. You need a filter - Birmingham only in my case. Can't see why a regional newspaper should wish to break national news. Other people do that better. Of course this implies that your local news-gathering is top notch. I'm not sure it is. Maybe I'll stick with RSS from your news authors which are mainly Birmingham based, not that we get many of those.

April 20, 2008 8:55 PM

Marc Reeves said:

Clifford - and Pete ... thanks both for the quick feedback.
I agree. The ideal I think would be to filter along the lines of our sector or 'interest' channels (ie media & marketing or politics etc), and perhaps distinct tweets for particular bloggers, for example.

April 20, 2008 10:03 PM

clifford said:

After playing around with Twitter I think I'm missing something - and I'd consider myself computer literate.

I've set up a Twitter account, I've set up a Jabber account and put the information into my Twitter profile and I've downloaded Adium (an instant messaging application) onto my Mac which has connected to Jabber. But - no Twitter IMs. I can see them on my Twitter page but that are not IMed to my Mac. What am I doing wrong?

April 21, 2008 11:32 AM

clifford said:

Now working - my 'device needed to be verified'.

April 21, 2008 2:35 PM