Following on from the post I published in November on UK journalists using Twitter, I thought it would be interesting to do something similar for the US media. My instincts told me that if one American media outlet was embracing Twitter more than most it would be the New York Times, and although I have no hard evidence it seems I was right. I found 60 Twitter profiles but wouldn’t be surprised if there were more. Edit: There are more. In the comments Michael Donohoe points me to another two which I’ve added. Edit 2: David Seguin points me to another profile by the NYT Communications team. Edit 3: Additonal ones added. Now 68 Twitter profiles.
Editors
WM Ferguson – http://twitter.com/WmFerguson (Editor)
Katherine Schulten – http://twitter.com/KSchulten (Editor)
Aron Pilhofer – http://twitter.com/pilhofer (Editor)
Jim Schachter – http://twitter.com/jimschachter (Editor, Digital Initiatives)
Saul Hansell – http://twitter.com/shansell (Editor, NY Times Bits blog)
Tom Zeller Jr – http://twitter.com/tomzellerjr (Alternative Energy Editor)
Andrew DeVigal – http://twitter.com/drewvigal (Multimedia Editor)
Nick Bilton – http://twitter.com/nickbilton (Design Intergration Editor)
Vindu Goel – http://twitter.com/vindugoel (Deputy Technology Editor)
Julie Walton Shaver – http://twitter.com/jwsphoto (Graphics Editor)
Tom Jolly – http://twitter.com/TomJolly (Sports Editor)
Jonathan Landman – http://twitter.com/jonathanlandman (Deputy Managing Editor)
Patrick LaForge – http://twitter.com/palafo (Editor of nytimes.com/cityroom)
Reporters
Laura Norton – http://twitter.com/LauraNorton (Reporter with Press Democrat)
Micki Maynard – http://twitter.com/MickiMaynard (Reporter, Airline Industry)
Marci Alboher – http://twitter.com/heymarci (Reporter)
Andrew C. Revkin – http://twitter.com/revkin (Reporter, Global Change)
Vanessa Schneider – http://twitter.com/VSchn31d3r
Sewell Chan – http://twitter.com/sewell_chan (Reporter)
Clive Thompson – http://twitter.com/pomeranian99 (Reporter)
Brian Stelter – http://twitter.com/brianstelter (Reporter)
Brad Stone – http://twitter.com/BradStone (Technology Correspondent, San Francisco)
David Pogue – http://twitter.com/DavidPogue (Personal Technology Correspondent)
John Markoff – http://twitter.com/markoff (West Coast Correspondent)
Nicholas Kristof – http://twitter.com/NYTimesKristof
Jenifer 8. Lee – http://twitter.com/jenny8lee
Tina Kelley – http://twitter.com/tinakelley
The Moment (no name) – http://twitter.com/themoment
PR and Marketing
Edward Bohan – http://twitter.com/EdwardBohan (Corporate Communications)
Soraya Darabi – http://twitter.com/SorayaD (Manager of Buzz Marketing)
cvvalencia – http://twitter.com/cvvalencia (Communications Assistant)
Stacy Green – http://twitter.com/stacygreen (Internal Comms)
Multiple authors – http://twitter.com/nytimescomm (NYTCo Communications)
Other
K Rushford – http://twitter.com/krushford (Product Manager)
Ted Roden – http://twitter.com/tedroden (Creative Technologist)
Angela Rutherford – http://twitter.com/archivalproject (Design Manager of NYTimes.com)
Philippe Lourier – http://twitter.com/philippelourier (Product Manager, Blogrunner)
Evan Sandhaus – http://twitter.com/kansandhaus (Search Scientist)
Jacob Harris – http://twitter.com/harrisj (Software Developer)
Jeremy Zilar – http://twitter.com/silencematters (Design Specialist)
Khoi Vinh – http://twitter.com/khoi (Design Director of NYTimes.com)
Clint Fisher – http://twitter.com/clintfisher (Web Developer)
David Seguin – http://twitter.com/davidseguin (Web Developer)
Michael Young – http://twitter.com/myoung (R&D)
New York Times Building – http://twitter.com/nytimes_bldg
Alan Yacavone – http://twitter.com/liquiddigital (Newsroom Technology)
Twitter Feeds
NY Times – http://twitter.com/NYTimes
Green Inc. – http://twitter.com/greeninc
City Room – http://twitter.com/CityRoom
Dot Earth – http://twitter.com/dotearth
The Caucus – http://twitter.com/thecaucus
The Lede – http://twitter.com/thelede
Times People – http://twitter.com/timespeople
NY Times Arts – http://twitter.com/NYTimesarts
NY Times Health – http://twitter.com/NYTimeshealth
NY Times Dining – http://twitter.com/NYTimesdining
NY Times Books – http://twitter.com/NYTimesbooks
NY Times Movies – http://twitter.com/NYTimesMovies
NY Times Science – http://twitter.com/NYTimesScience
NY Times Business – http://twitter.com/NYTimesBusiness
NY Times Sports – http://twitter.com/NYTimesSports
NY Times National – http://twitter.com/NYTimesNational
NY Times Travel – http://twitter.com/NYTimesTravel
NY Times Food – http://twitter.com/NYTimesFood
NY Times Weather – http://twitter.com/NYTimesWeather
NY Times World – http://twitter.com/NYTimesWorld
NY Times Style – http://twitter.com/NYTimesStyle
NY Times Politics – http://twitter.com/NYTimesPolitics
NY Times Metro – http://twitter.com/NYTimesMetro
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Craig McGill
I wonder if there’s such a thing as too many twitterers in an organisation?
Dave King
I had heard that many companies in many industries are adopting Twitter in place of emails to communicate between employees. This is proof positive.
How many of these are public and how many are locked so that messages can only be followed by other New York Times employees?
Darko Buldioski
Have you checked now many of the personal accounts are not used for the purposes of NYT?
Stephen
@Darko No but who uses a Twitter account specifically for work or specifically for personal? And btw remember that this is all publicly available information – I haven’t cracked any codes.
That said, if anybody requests to be removed I will happily do so. No one has of as of yet.
Nicole
I believe this is a helpful site not just for PR and Marketing but in general. There is no such thing as too many twitters as long as the twitters you have are people or companies you actually are interested in and it is not just for the status of having X number of followers etc…
Jim Peake
As I clicked on many of their Twitter profiles notice how their ratio is always more followers to following. NYT, is still an organization that is all transmit and very little receive.
Jacob Harris
Jim, I think if you look at everyone on twitter, you’ll find that most of them conform to the general pattern of more followers than following. I don’t think it’s reflective of any organizational attitudes, nor is it a judgment of friendship or worth whom a user follows.
michael
There are a few other feeds with adding here:
http://twitter.com/timespeople
http://twitter.com/NYTimesKristof
Alexander Kintis
Excellent resource!
Darko Buldioski
@Stephen Thanks for the response, i was thinking the same, just wanted to have your general impressions as you have at least opened all accounts mentioned in the post
About the type of use, i would have to say without a pleasure that i have here and there run into personal accounts that are used only for work purposes.
Ruth Seeley
There’s also this wiki, which I’ve found very helpful. Haven’t had a chance to cross-reference your list with the wiki.
http://mediaontwitter.pbwiki.com/
Gillian Shaw
For some journalists (and many others suffering from overloaded inboxes) I think Twitter is being used iincreasingly instead of email. While I can’t speak for the journalists at the New York Times, in our organization I expect most of the Twitter users leave their updates open. It is a great way to hear what others are saying, across a wide network. Our newsroom includes people who have just signed onto Twitter and are learning about it and others who use it more regularly. Some of our staff at The Vancouver Sun are on mediaontwitter, the wiki that Ruth points out above. For a more recent list, I posted an update on my blog at http://www.vancouversun.com/digitallife.
Cheri Sigmon (@LongestWiener)
It’s interesting to see a large, respected “traditional media” organization such as the NYT using Twitter fairly extensively. I think it’s a sign of the times and perhaps the way ahead. The last estimate I heard was that Twitter has about 5 million users now. Am I in the ballpark w/ this statistic? I know Twitter is evolving rapidly. I enjoy using it too (vs. e-mail floods) and making connections with people who I’d likely never meet otherwise.
Regards,
Cheri
@LongestWiener
Steve Buttry
I disagree with your assumption. I am editor of The Gazette in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. We have a much smaller staff, but by my count, 36 of 85 full-time news and editorial staff members are on Twitter, most of them using it quite actively. By numbers, the Times has more on Twitter, but by percentage, I think we are way ahead. I suspect the Austin American-Statesman and Vancouver Sun, and possibly some others, have also embraced Twitter more than the Times.
Steve Buttry
@stevebuttry
Ellen Weber
Great diversity in your list and thanks! Before social media there were few others that I could link to daily – who also apply top brain research to show newly developed and life-changing approaches to one’s day. It’s good to see mainstream media begin to interact and exchange more cutting edge ideas that will shape how many can prosper and inspire others to do the same in 2009.
Social media systems such as Twitter – are changing the way so many intelligent people can now communicate to get past narrow, exclusive and limited views to foster broader angles that will add to growth in the coming year. Hopefully it will also begin to restore ethics to broken networks.
Thanks for opening your own exchanges!