This should be useful Twitter has launched a new account that is dedicated to spotlighting some of the best practices and innovative uses of Twitter by journalists and newsrooms.

Twitter says the account will focus on “innovative Twitter use across all types of news & journalism – not just breaking”. Interesting that it comes in a week when Twitter said that it wasn’t a media company. Read More »

Reuters has named its Top 50 Social CEOs as part of the launch of a new social media  section for journalists and readers called the “Social Pulse”.

Topping the list it will be no surprise to anyone to see Mashable’s Pete Cashmore. He is followed by Oprah Winfrey and new Twitter boy on the block Rupert Murdoch. Less than a month in and the combustible News Corporation CEO is number three. That’s social climbing. Read More »

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So it’s finally happened; Facebook has filed for ‘the largest technology IPO in Wall Street history’. Everything about Facebook is immense; almost 850 million users and 2.7 billion likes and comments every day. As recently as the summer of 2008, Mark Zuckerberg was celebrating the 100 millionth user, that means 750 million people signed up in 3.5 years alone. Then there’s Twitter, hitting 500 million users any day now, not to mention Linkedin, who reported 135 million members in November 2011. Read More »

The New York Times has given an update on its paywall and overall digital subscription numbers with the number of digital subscription packages, e-readers and replica editions of paper, and the International Herald Tribune, hitting 390,000 at the end of the fourth quarter. That’s up 20%, or by almost 70,000, since the end of the third quarter of 2011.

Including the Boston Globe the New York Times had a total of 406,000 paid digital subscriptions. Read More »