Content Curation World

If you are a journalist and you are using Twitter to pick and share relevant news for your following, you may want to check out these straightforward suggestions on how to best manage your news curation process.

The Twitter blog team has analyzed back in September of last year, thousands of tweets from over 150 news companies and individual reporters, to distill which are the most important traits of good news curation.

In essence:

• Tweet content related to your beat; live-tweet 
  
  
• Use hashtags for context and @cite your sources
  
  
• Share what you're reading with your Twitter followers
  
  
• Use the Retweet button to curate

To the point. Useful. 8/10

Original article: http://blog.twitter.com/2012/09/best-practices-for-journalists.html

Additional resources at http://bit.ly/TwitterForNews