Editor & Publisher shared a list of top newspaper web sites in March, ranked by unique audience. Here is the top of that list, along with each site’s main Twitter account, its RTPMF as calculated by Retweetist, and the number of times it has been retweeted: NYTimes.com (@nytimes): 1.1 RTPMF, with 761 retweets in the last 7 days USATODAY.com (@USATODAY): 5.2 RTPMF, with 47 [...]
During the first week of March, 685 messages on Twitter mentioned @coloneltribune. If each tweet was sent by someone with 70 followers (the average according to HubSpot), the word “@coloneltribune” might have been seen by 47,950 people. Since the Twitter web site automatically links “@coloneltribune” to Colonel Tribune’s Twitter page, that translates to almost 48,000 [...]
I’m trying a new experiment today. Below are four comments (two from other sites, and two from Twitter) about what newspapers “should” do online. Click on the one-word label to read the comment or tweet in its original context, or click on “tweet” to share the comment with others on Twitter. Community: “Techdirt’s Mike does [...]
Here are a seven comments from Twitter users talking about newspapers and mainstream media (MSM). Stop weekends: “I think newspapers would do well to consider scrapping weekdays and focus.” - Dec. 30, 2008 from @JonnyStark in London, UK Stop print edition: ”i wish the newspapers would just stop printing on paper and save us all a lot of time and [...]
