journalists are (one of) the backbones of social media — having a space for breaking news and real-time communication is incredibly crucial for crises, information dissemination, and more
and sure, political discourse can come along with "scrutiny and negativity," but what isn't political
Direct from Mosseri: they DON’T want to encourage politics and hard news posting on Threads, and the “scrutiny, negativity…or integrity risks that come along with them.”
we've been reaching out to & been in contact with a bunch of newsrooms (including local news) but if you have personal contacts at news orgs, please have them email [email protected]!
You're serious about getting reporters here, right? Because there are a whole bunch who I can reach out to. I've been using some of the invites I have gotten access to for that anyway.
To be clear, I'm talking credible people, obviously.
Please can you do the same for academics and scientists? It was very poor on old Twitter to have the precious few privileged ones getting special blue checks. It’s likewise not great for encouraging strong reliable content that most academics can’t get access at all here unless they’re connected.
I doubt they will go for that. The vetting process would be a ton of labor.
There are a ton of unused invites.
Some scientists are gathering unused invite codes and redistributing them. As of last week, they had done this with 4,500.
Probably best done by fields/subfields.
If anyone has energy.
I've been reaching out to people and can already report that both national and local news folks are overwhelmed with having to choose between the many new platforms.
I'm making a pitch for bsky ofc. But, also, journalists are spooked by the horrors of social media in recent years. Esp. women, obvs.
Reporters here who started mid-2010s onwards either don’t use Twitter or have dormant accounts.
Hell Sydney and Melbourne have one real newspaper, and one financial paper.
And no one even from their newsrooms seems to be here. I’ll nudge them too!
This rules! Have a bunch of cool serious credible people I’ll nudge, especially in Australia & NZ, like a music journalist friend in Melbourne, and several active freelancers.
(serious journalism gets sparse in small markets except a few outlets, many just need a nudge BlueSky is worth dropping by.
