What Jon Dickerson of Slate is tweeting about

Twitter as a political tool? I think so, though not the only tool. I am kind of surprised to hear Wasserman talk about Twitter as a well-established tool of the mass media. Maybe inside the Beltway, but in Chicago, only a few reporters are tweeting. Roeper tweets about the Sox.

clipped from www.cqpolitics.com Media: Tweets, Blogs and Leaves By Elizabeth Wasserman, CQ Columnist By 2000, print, TV, cable, radio and Internet companies such as AOL lined “Internet Alleys” in Los Angeles and Philadelphia and fed online convention coverage portals. Four years ago, as TV networks cut back air time for the increasingly predictable conventions, “Blogger Alley” joined the technological streetscape in both Boston and New York, producing more partisan coverage. So what’s it going to be this time around? I think I can answer that in 140 characters or less: Twitter. For those out of the technological loop — or without kids or colleagues in the teen-to-twentysomething demographic — Twitter is the hot new social networking phenomenon. It allows users to instantly inform their friends or fans of what they’re doing, seeing or thinking — as long as the communication can be done in no more than 140 keystrokes.