Posted Brian Schultz
The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) is looking for a new member to add to their customer service panel and they’re using Twitter to find that person.
Brad Ross, TTC’s communications manager, sent out a tweet Thursday stating, “Ok riders, looking for 1 public member for the cust. serv. panel. Tell us why it [...]

Siloam Mission is in need of wooden or plastic chairs. Blair Barkley took to the charity’s Twitter account Tuesday to tweet the call for help. “We are running out of chairs for people to sit and eat during meals,” he said.
The tweet didn’t fall on deaf ears, because the Inn at The Forks responded, “i [...]

Posted by Tyler Sutherland
The new director of BBC Global News is pro-social networking. In fact, Peter Horrocks is backing Facebook and Twitter so much, he has made it mandatory for journalists in his newsroom to use it.
Horrocks took a similar stand to what most newsrooms have been doing for over a year now — utilizing [...]

Posted by Tyler Sutherland
Thanks to Facebook, Twitter and text messaging, more post-secondary students cannot write properly and use correct grammar.
In an article put out by The Canadian Press on Sunday, professors at universities across the country say a lack of English grammar is becoming a serious problem. Ontario’s Waterloo University is making sure its students [...]

Posted by David Klassen
Five journalists are putting social media to the test in an experiment to gather news by only using Facebook and Twitter.
Because news breaks online rather than in a traditional media environment, proponents of the experiment say it will show that the two websites can be used as valuable sources in crafting a [...]

Posted by Tyler Sutherland
Here’s what not to do on Twitter:
A 26-year-old man in England, frustrated with airline delays, took to Twitter to vent his frustration.
Paul Chambers tweeted from the Robin Hood airport near Doncaster, “Robin Hood airport is closed. You’ve got a week and a bit to get your s*** together, otherwise I’m blowing the [...]

It’s a technology that makes gathering news for reporters and journalists much easier than just a few short years ago. Twitter — the microblogging platform that gives you up to 140 characters to “tweet” what you have to say — is becoming standard in at least one U.K. newsroom.
Sky News — an online website owned [...]

Shoppers at St. Vital Centre were directed to available parking spots by Winnipeg police officers earlier this week. Shoppers in Minneapolis can simply check their cell phone, thanks to Twitter.
The Mall of America started tweeting their parking situation on December 19 to help out last-minute shoppers.

Tweets will be sent out 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. [...]

Posted by Tyler Sutherland
The general manager and news director at WPMI-TV in Alabama were suspended over the following unique idea for a billboard.

Having thought ahead of their competition, the station invested in a digital billboard that would display the latest headlines from its Twitter feed in real-time. Just one problem: The above headline didn’t fit [...]

Posted by Brian Schultz
MSNBC has picked up the popular @BreakingNews Twitter feed, along with its 1.4 million followers in a deal with BNO News.
BNO will reportedly now focus on developing a subscription-based wire service, where their editorial team will work to break their own stories. It will be sort of like a modern version of [...]

Winnipeg Blue Bombers’ safety Ian Logan (@ianlogan31) surpassed his goal of 1,000 followers on Twitter Tuesday evening. The CFL player and Hot 103’s Ace Burpee donated a combined $500 to United Way Winnipeg in the form of a giant cheque on Wednesday morning during Bomber practice.
The mission started a couple months ago and gained momentum [...]

Twitter is a powerful marketing tool, but when used to help out charity, its use is limitless. Winnipeg Blue Bombers’ safety #31 Ian Logan wants to be the first CFL player to reach 1,000 followers on the miroblogging site.
For about the last week, Logan has been twittering that he and Hot 103’s Ace Burpee will [...]