RINF Alternative News on Twitter

If you don’t have a Twitter account yet you’re missing out.

Twitter is great for following news reports and community discussion, the benefit for RINF visitors is that it allows you to track the most recent site updates (aswell as updates from other sites too) all in one place. I use it myself for catching the latest headlines from a variety of news sites. It’s very easy to use.

You can sign up for one here https://twitter.com/signup

The main RINF newswire Twitter page is http://twitter.com/rinf_news

The RINF open publishing Twitter page is http://twitter.com/rinf_community

To see all updates across the RINF web site start following both on Twitter. There’s also a number of other radical /alternative news sites using Twitter, so you can get all your latest headlines in one place.

According to Wikipedia

Twitter has been used as a “social justice tool” to connect groups of people in critical situations. On April 10 2008, James Buck, a graduate journalism student at UC Berkeley, and his translator, Mohammed Maree, were arrested in Egypt for photographing an anti-government protest. On his way to the police station, Buck used his mobile phone to send the message “Arrested” to his 48 “followers” on Twitter. Those contacted UC Berkeley, the US Embassy in Cairo and a number of press organizations on his behalf. While being detained, Buck was able to send updates about his condition to his “followers”. As a result of the message and the efforts of his Twitter friends, he was released the next day from the Mahalla jail after the college hired a lawyer for him.

If you’re a webmaster I would also recommend using Twitter to help get your message to a wider audience.

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