Twitter vs Facebook

Well this blog is a little bit late but you know what they say- better late than never. 

So last week we had Spencer Howson as our guest tutor and it was great to hear about how he uses Twitter as a journalist. 

I am an avid user of Facebook and a bit of a rookie on Twitter. The highlight of my Twitter life was when Spencer Howson tweeted me back twice in one day last Friday. And this for me, emphasised the difference between Twitter and Facebook. As Howson said in the lecture, Facebook is for people you knew at school and don't really like and twitter is for people you don't know but would like to. 

This is really why Twitter is so much more useful for journalists than facebook. The fact that I could tweet (and get a response!)someone who is a leading journalist shows that the world is at your fingertips in terms of information. 

So now, to continue my learning curve on Twitter I am going to tweet my story to Howson- let's see what happens!