Twitter Usage Practices of Journalists

In the limited space of the Twitter, receiving and diffusing news and information is one of usage purposes. In this remark Alfred Hermida approaches to Twitter as a real-time, networked digital technology that offers diverse means to collect, communicate, share and display news and information which is also useful in the remark of the journalism profession worldwide.Thus, even the biggest media companies of the world use Twitter as a part of conventional media tools like newspaper, television, radio etc. and reach millions of people via this medium. Not only the companies but also the journalists use this medium by signing-in individually. For receiving and distributing news and their ideas on the news in a more democratical and uncensored space in spite of the Twitter usage limitations of the media companies that they work for.