Tweet Digest for 2008-08-31

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Tweet Digest for 2008-08-30

  • Kind of bummed I missed the #rnc08 media party, there’s a stack of invites in the office but I had to work. Oh well, duty calls. #
  • According to @NewsHour, Jon Stewart was just seen down by the Irish pub near the Xcel. #
  • @sandentotten They could have been using GTA4 for riot training. in reply to sandentotten #
  • @sandentotten According to warrant it says “…iPods, X-Box gaming systems, cellular phones, PDAs…” in reply to sandentotten #
  • Police found bombs, caltrops, buckets of urine, etc. Crazy! http://minnesota.publicradio.org/ #
  • The craziness is already happening. Check out photos of contraband seized by St. Paul police: http://tinyurl.com/6jklee #
  • I can’t believe people wait in such long lines for fried cheese. #
  • Doing my duty and visiting the MN State Fair. #

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Tweet Digest for 2008-08-29

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Buyouts 2.0

In an interesting twist, William M. Hartnett of the Palm Beach Post has been Twittering his buyout meeting.

Some highlights:

- No details yet on layoff severance package if buyouts don’t meet job cut goals. Just “less generous.” 9 minutes ago from web
- Guy in front row is staring at the ceiling. 7 minutes ago from web
- Separation pay taxed at normal rate, unless received as lump sum. 13 minutes ago from web
- They’ll be “exited” that day. Sounds menacing. 15 minutes ago from web
- Last day for buyout recipients: Tuesday, Aug. 12 16 minutes ago from web
- Max 52 weeks, for those here more than 26 years. 20 minutes ago from web
- Not quite enough for that yacht I was hoping to get. 22 minutes ago from web
- Two weeks of pay and benefits for every year of service. 23 minutes ago from web

What’s funny about this, and what so many others are doing right now, is that for once everyone has no fear about what they are putting online. The general consensus seems to be, “What are you going to do, fire me?”

Let’s Tweet it out fellas (and ladies of course)!

Ari Gold, twitter

Tara Hunt over at HorsePigCow has a great post called Tweeting for Companies 101. Her thoughts:

Twitter can be an amazingly powerful platform for connecting to your community as well as driving traffic to the various properties you want people to go. Having an event? Tweet it out! Launched a new bag? Tweet it out!

The key to Twitter is the level of listening you do as well as talking. It is definitely supposed to be an interactive program. And, in fact, this is where you build the majority of your Whuffie (aka social capital). The more you interact on Twitter, the more people will interact with you, which attracts others to you as well.

Though meant to be directed toward marketing companies and similar institutions, there’s no reason some of her tips can’t be appropriated for use by the journalism business. Considering the forced marriage between the two it seems more than appropriate actually. Hunt lists some corporate examples from JetBlue and Zappos and then gives a laundry list of potential uses for the microblogging platform. She also offers the advice in a handy PDF, so maybe you can print it out and unplug for a little while instead of just staying at the computer during your lunch break.

Check it out.

Oh, and be sure to also read colleague and Orlando Sentinel business/tech journalist Etan Horowitz’s post on why journalists should use Twitter.