Mfarhanonline Social Media News: The Trendsetter Tech Series is supported by smart . Test drive the space saving, eco-friendly, totally unique, smart. Visit smartusa.com to find a new smart center near you. smart — unbig. uncar. Thanks to the low barrier of entry for online media, as well as an increasing number of channels to access content, more news is being put out across a greater number of platforms every week. For consumers, this is largely a good thing. More content means more choice. But more content can also mean more noise, making it difficult for readers to access the information they really need. With that challenge in mind, we’ve pulled together some of our favorite tools for keeping on top of news of all varieties, whether you’re the kind of person who likes to keep up with breaking international news, highlights in your industry or news from your personal networks. The list is by no means exhaustive, so if you’re using a tool you’d like to recommend to fellow Mfarhanonline readers, please share it with us in the comments section below. 1. Twitter For breaking news, there are few better tools than Twitter . News of everything from sports team signings to earthquakes have broken first on the microblogging service. Perhaps most famously, news of Osama bin Laden ‘s death spread on Twitter before it was confirmed by any mainstream source. But logging into Twitter.com every day won’t keep you on top of news alone: You also need to find the right people, and organize your sources appropriately. Here are a few tips: Follow the right people. For breaking news, we suggest you follow @BreakingNews , @AP , @Reuters and @BBCBreaking . For other news, we recommend finding the Twitter feeds of news sources — publications as well as individual journalists — you read elsewhere, and looking through their lis! ts to se e who they’re getting news from. Get Twitter everywhere. In addition to Twitter.com, Twitter also has a range of apps for iPhone, iPad, Android, BlackBerry and Windows Phone 7 devices, as well as a mobile site for accessing Twitter through your mobile browser. Many of us also prefer to use Tweetdeck and/or Hootsuite on our desktops instead of Twitter.com. Organize your news lists. If you follow hundreds or even thousands of other users on Twitter, creating lists around certain category or hashtags will help you keep track of a certain topic, hashtag or news event. You can do this on Twitter.com and through Twitter’s third-party applications. Click here to view this gallery. Series supported by smart The Trendsetter Tech Series is supported by smart . Test drive the space saving, eco-friendly, totally unique, smart. Visit smartusa.com to find a new smart center near you. smart — unbig. uncar. Image courtesy of iStockphoto , rubenhi More About: features , Mfarhanonline , Media , News , Trendsetter Tech Series Social Media reviews series maintain by Mayya
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