Jack D. Lail
Jack D. Lail
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On what Ron Sylvester learned from Twittering a trial.

One day, I cut and pasted all my “tweet” updates into a traditional story file.  It measured 80 inches.  Now, I don’t think anyone would have read an 80-inch story from the newspaper on this trial, as compelling as it was. My editors certainly wouldn’t have run a story that long.  But what I found is that people will read an 80-inch story, given to them a paragraph at a time, 140 characters long. *[]: 2007-12-12T15:21:48+00:00