Open Thread: Do You Already Have a Twitter Newspaper?
Posted October 31, 2010 in Marketing, Open Thread
It seems that Twitter newspapers are popping up everywhere these days.
Typically, a Twitter newspaper uses a service like Paper.li to compile tweets from a particular Twitter user’s account according to parameters defined by that user. The user can use popular Twitter features such as Twitter lists and hashtags to control what content appears in the newspaper.
While I can certainly see some advantages to Twitter newspapers such as SEO advantages and an additional opportunity to get your name in front of potential clients, there are some disadvantages as well. For example, some Twitter users complain that the newspapers are annoying.
The trend has caused me to wonder, how many Freelance Folder readers have a Twitter newspaper?
Do you have a Twitter newspaper?
Leave your answer in the comments. If you do have a Twitter newspaper, could you also share how it is working out for you. Do you feel that your newspaper is well received? Does it bring additional traffic to your site or additional work to your freelancing business?
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About the author: Laura Spencer is a freelance writer from North Central Texas with over 20 years of professional business writing experience. If you liked this post, then you may also enjoy Laura’s blog about her freelance writing experiences, WritingThoughts. Laura is also on Google+.
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24 Comments
Ben
October 31st, 2010 at 9:25 amI have a Twitter newspaper, it’s 50-50 in it’s usefulness. I don’t really read it much as I keep up with my twitter streams. But it does help others learn more about you and your interests. It has also put me in touch with a number of national journalists, who I now regularly correspond with. So it can help with gaining connections.
Feel free to follow me at: http://www.twitter.com/cilben
Chris @ SyracuseCS
October 31st, 2010 at 10:10 amNo, I do not have a Twitter newspaper. I have been featured in a few of them, which is cool. I guess it would be a good way to get more information out there and connect with more people (which would bring them closer to your account). I would say anything in moderation, as long as you aren’t annoying with it, it can be a good thing. I’ll have to try making one and see how it goes.
Our Twitter: http://twitter.com/syracusecs
David
October 31st, 2010 at 11:40 amI am not so sure. As someone running a photo site it seems the paper.il hot link the image putting their own ads around the content. Yes they link to the article but is not just a vehicle for ads ?
Agile Scout
October 31st, 2010 at 11:48 amPaper.li is annoying. People need to stop.
Diana
October 31st, 2010 at 2:26 pmI didn’t now such a service was available, but if people don’t like paper.li, I would very much like to know what other choices I have? I can see getting quite a bit of mileage out of a hashtag “Twitter” newspaper, especially since Tweetdeck does have its limits.
Laura Spencer
October 31st, 2010 at 3:59 pmThis is a good conversation. I don’t personally have a Twitter newspaper myself, but have been wondering about starting one.
Diana,
The only alternative to paper.li that I could find is The Twitter Tim.es (http://twittertim.es/). Most of the Twitter newspapers that I see seem to be generated through paper.li, though. That may just be a trend among those that I follow.
MarkDamo
November 1st, 2010 at 5:18 amThis is news to me so im going to have to look into this in more detail. But from a quick glance at page on paper.li it could be useful.
InkSketch
November 1st, 2010 at 5:31 amI do have one but don’t actively promote it. I glance at it occasionally to see if there are any interesting tidbits that I may have missed while skimming the followed tweet streams.
Mary E. Ulrich
November 1st, 2010 at 8:33 amHi Laura,
I’ve never heard or seen a Twitter newspaper. My first impression is, “oh no–now I need to learn something else.”
Thanks for the head’s up.
Jen @ Adrinah Design
November 1st, 2010 at 10:04 amI don’t have a Twitter paper. I’ve thought about it, but have never set one up. I utilize Twitter lists and keywords via Hootsuite. It seems to work out well. When I’m away from Twitter for a little while, I catch up on the stuff I care about through the lists and keyword searches!
Bakari
November 1st, 2010 at 12:22 pmI’ve seen a few Twitter newspapers, but between all RSS feeds on my iPad and my Google Reader, it’s increasingly harder and harder to keep up with all the “news” links that I receive each day. It’s nearly worse than the emails and ads thrown at me everyday. However, I do like the format of these newspapers. Really great idea.
Wendy Kier
November 2nd, 2010 at 1:40 amI’m often thanked by tweeters for posting their articles in the paper! They then RT the paper into their own stream! Personally I really like them and also set them up for my social media clients.
Our Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/BBLC
Monkfishy
January 12th, 2011 at 11:23 pmI have several paper.li papers. I’m not trying to promote a website or business, though. I just have a lot of eclectic interests, and wanted to share some really interesting tweeps with others who share a specific interest. The first one I created is for people in my geographic area who are progressive or liberal (which is pretty far from the local mainstream).
Anyway, one of the main things I like about paper.li is the fact that they aren’t a vehicle for advertising. In fact, I started a temporary paper right before the holidays, based on the hashtag #holiday. When I started to see that it was mainly being filled with marketing tweets, I deleted it.
I do get RTs and thanks from people who are mentioned in the papers, but I haven’t yet seen any complaints. If I did, I would probably stop publishing them on a regular basis.
deepak sharma
January 22nd, 2011 at 4:22 ampaper.li is great ………….
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