Tweet Tweet: Twitter Benefits for Writers

Find sources for articles on Twitter

Twitter’s an excellent tool for writers, but there’s a big danger. You can become too involved. I admit I have a tendency to do this. Therefore, I confine my Twitter-use to searches, rather than constant interaction.

There are dozens of ways Twitter can be useful to writers. If you’re new to Twitter, you’ll find this article useful. 10 things Twitter can do for journalists – Joanne the Coach offers lots of tips, and suggests:

“Find case studies
Use the hashtag #journorequest (started by @SarahEwing and now widely used) and people will retweet your request. Journalists tell me that even quite obscure case studies are being found relatively easily using this method.”

As you can see from the image above, I search for #journorequest, and found that it’s a heavily used hash tag.

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