Twitter as a Tool

Twitter is an extremely useful tool for journalists all around the world. Journalists can use people's twitter profiles to get firsthand accounts of events to use in their stories. They can also use this to scoop a new story, which is a sought after goal for many journalists. In addition to twitter itself, there are many additional websites that a journalist could use that go through twitter. http://trendsmap.com/
can be used by journalists to map trends and what people are tweeting about all over the world. http://topsy.com/ could be used by journalists to gather additional information for a story to scoop it, or for more firsthand accounts, and even more aspects of the event that weren't previously known about.