Journalists are not adopting Twitter as rapidly as one would think. Twitter is a way to quickly reach new sources, as well as to build a personal following for your reportage.
If Twitter had been available when I was a reporter 100 years ago or so, I'd have been all over it. I wrote a media criticism column and had a group of Media Miscue Rangers who kept an eye out for media misdeeds. Man, Twitter would have simplified communicating with my posse of Rangers.
I'm assembling a list of reporters who are using it. A number of newspapers and media outlets have jumped on the bandwagon, such as @startribune; @asheville; @nytimes; @nj_news; @foxnews; @theobserver
I'll be posting this link to Twitter soon to see if we can drum up some journalists' comments about how they are using it.