SA Newspapers (not) on Twitter

NVDL: This is a potential growth area across the board.

clipped from www.marklives.com Twitter, the popular micro-blogging service, isn’t being utilised properly by South African newspaper publishers. Internationally Twitter is being used by media organisations as diverse as CNN and the NYTimes to push breaking news to subscribers. Big name local brands such as The Star, Beeld, Die Burger, the Cape Times, the Sowetan and others are still missing in action. So which South African newspapers make use of Twitter? Twitter News Ranking Name & URL No Followers No Updates Ranking IOL 417 30525 1 The Times 290 6293 2 News24 214 9779 3 Grocotts Mail 74 216 4 Mail & Guardian 64 254 5 Just as a comparison here is a look at some of the international subscriber figures: Name & URL and No Followers The New York Times 13985 Financial Times 685 Detroit Free Press 701