OJR's Robert Niles is pimping Twitter.

So is Kirk LaPointe (partly in response to Niles).

The Poynter Institute's Ellyn Angelotti has this primer on tweeting for Journos.

Here's my Twitter experiment for the day. I posted this little brain-teaser late this afternoon:

Who are the 'best' neighborhood Tweeters in Toronto, in terms of providing news about their nabes?

Still waiting for a response. I'll likely never get one.

Part of the problem is the nature of a social networking utility such as Twitter. If my tweet doesn't make it into a network that actually knows something about the subject matter, I'm screwed.

If no one knows anything about the subject matter, I'm screwed.

Twitter also seems to be rather constricted in subject matter, depending on the network you build. Most of the people I'm following/being followed by seem to be "social media strategists" of some type.

Ask a social media strategy question, and maybe my odds would improve.

Also, I suspect many people are real-world pals.

But OTOH, if people are extremely "picky" (for lack of a better word) about what questions they're willing to address, or from whom, then how "social' a medium is Twitter anyway?