Here’s a couple of twitter applications which could be useful for those working in journalism or broadcasting:
PollDaddy makes it easy to create and run multiple choice polls on twitter. To use it you simply author a question, set up the answers you want to make available and enter your twitter username and password. Here’s my first experiment…
GroupTweet makes it possible to set up groups, allowing members to send a single direct (private message) to reach everyone following the group. This could be useful for production teams, or those working on a networked journalism project, to communicate more easily and privately using twitter.
I’ve also been using tweetscan to keep track of the use of various keywords (in particular @Cybersoc so I don’t miss any replies and, when I’m at a conference, I integrate the conference tag into my RSS aggregation) and twitterlocal which I’ve been testing on my blog about life in St. Albans.
[PollDaddy link, like quite a lot of the good things I come across these days, thanks to Paul Bradshaw who has a rather good blog about Online Journalism.]