It was more the subject matter I was trying to journalize. Twitter journalism is great at two things: (1) relating events as they happen on the ground faster than the press can cover it, and (2) analyzing / relating personal experiences about those events in real itime.
In a world where there was no transcript or video of oral arguments, my tweetstorm made sense; I faithfully related what the parties were arguing in the courtroom at extremely high speed. But there WAS a video! It was, in fact, being livestreamed! I added almost nothing that the livestream didn't capture.
What I should have been doing is assumed my readers were also watching the livestream, and then tweeting color commentary about who (I thought) was winning or losing at any given moment, or how seriously one advocate or another had biffed it.
That's a great idea! Can't wait to go read that tweet thread
TBQH, it was not good. I will need to figure out a better way to liveblog next time.
Was a Twitter thread not the best platform for that kind of journalisming?
It was more the subject matter I was trying to journalize. Twitter journalism is great at two things: (1) relating events as they happen on the ground faster than the press can cover it, and (2) analyzing / relating personal experiences about those events in real itime.
In a world where there was no transcript or video of oral arguments, my tweetstorm made sense; I faithfully related what the parties were arguing in the courtroom at extremely high speed. But there WAS a video! It was, in fact, being livestreamed! I added almost nothing that the livestream didn't capture.
What I should have been doing is assumed my readers were also watching the livestream, and then tweeting color commentary about who (I thought) was winning or losing at any given moment, or how seriously one advocate or another had biffed it.
Live and learn!