When blogging isn't fast enough... now there's Twitter

Poynter's Steve Outing explains how breaking news is moving from blogs to feeds -- often using a provider known as Twitter, here: The Twitter Disaster.

The BBC and CNN have been using Twitter for a while, and at The Dallas Morning News, we have registered a Twitter name (Dallasnewscom) but we haven't yet put it into practice. We will experiment with this in 2008.