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How journalists use Twitter

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An editor explains how he uses Twitter to dig up stories, and why you should pitch him on Twitter instead of email:

I've tweeted three times in the last 12 days. Three.
Yet I'm on Twitter constantly.

I have 15 active columns on TweetDeck. At any time I have a dozen Twitter app alerts on my phone. I probably spend more time crawling through Twitter than watching "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle" trailers, and I spend a lot of time watching those.

What the hell am I doing, and how do I source stories without tweeting much? By doing these five things:

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