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.

CEO Dick Costolo said that rather than being a media company Twitter was “in the media business, but we’re not necessarily a media company. We don’t create our own content; we’re a distributor of content and traffic. We’re one of the largest drivers of traffic to other media properties, [namely] to other online web properties, even to films”.

One of the first things @TwitterForNews has highlighted is the new Reuters ‘Social Pulse’ section, which I wrote about earlier today. That should be useful.

There are so many innovative users of Twitter out there. Last year’s effort by the Boston Globe to create a Twitter “information radiator” springs to mind as does the Guardian’s Twitter-based search assistant.

Twitter for News also highlights some of the resources that it offers for journalists:

If you haven’t seen them before, here are some of our resources for journalists and newsrooms: dev.twitter.com/media/newsrooms

— Twitter for News (@TwitterForNews) February 2, 2012