Last week, I promised our awesome friend Scott that we would round up all of the NPR people who actively use Twitter and post links here. This is how it works: I’m going to start a list of NPR twitter-ers (tweeters? twits?) that will be updated every so often with links to relevant Twitter accounts. To make it easier for everyone, I’m going to break it up by category. Today, it’s public radio shows!
NPR has more than 300 followers, and less than one update.
Talk of the Nation (they don’t update consistently, but they’re awesome when they do)
The Takeaway (Morning news show “for engaged listeners”)
Public Insight allows poses lots of questions (a lot of them from Marketplace).
We love WNYC, ’cause that’s where Brooke and Bob work.
BBC2 has very informed-sounding accents. (Granted, a lot of people who work in public radio have very informed-sounding accents. It’s almost like a job requirement).
Those of you with election addictions should hit up NPR Politics. They live-tweet election results and conventions! This is awesome if you don’t have cable.
Give some retroactive love to the BPP.
Consider all songs with Bob Boilen.
Laura Conaway and company are much cooler (and way less scary) than my college economics professor on planetmoney.
If you’re a public radio show with a Twitter account and we left you off the list, leave a comment and let us know. We’ll get you added right away.
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Thanks for the info. Why the NPR twitter account was not updated, not even once, is a mystery.
You may also find the Public Media TwitterPack interesting:
http://twitterpacks.pbwiki.com/Public+Media
if I remember correctly, someone had already grabbed the @npr acct when I checked last year so we set up @nprnews instead. So let me ask this: since we have @nprnews running, how could we use @npr differently? Should we just move @nprnews over to it – assuming I can get access to it?
@acarvin – I think you should feed your tweets from nprnews and nprpolitics into the NPR twitter account. You could just make it a clearinghouse for all tweets from NPR. That way, if people like specific things, like news, they can just follow that account. If they want something more broad, they would follow the NPR account.
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