Twitter and NBC (and me)

Somehow I missed this till today (I know, I’m as shocked as you are!). Jim Long is a veteran camera operator for NBC News. On Sunday he twittered a bit while he was on the set of Meet the Press, recommending that we watch the show.

I’m not a big talking-head news show fan, but it sounded interesting, so I decided to check it out based on Jim’s recommendation, and I sent out a twitter saying as much.

Jim’s blog post explains what came next.

So my Twitter friend, Annie Boccio tweets back with this:

So that translates into one “confirmed” person who was influenced by my real-time behind the scenes reporting. And as DC Media Maker, videoblogger and media consultant Jonny Goldstein points out:

The kind of people who use Twitter are highly connected people who use technology to spread ideas; many of us are bloggers, like me for example. We may well blog about what Jim reports. This multiplies the effects of Jim’s messages.

Jonny goes on to suggest that Tim [Russert] should give me a hug for my enterprise. I don’t know if that will be forthcoming, but I’ll surely Twitter it if he does.

Jim’s been twittering his reactions to covering the VA Tech tragedy this week. If you have any interest at all in the intersection between old and new media, I highly recommend reading Jim’s blog!