Twitter can be very frustrating to use. I don’t think he or other journalists necessarily need to tweet a lot (although there’s a lot of good reasons why they should!) But I do think that journalists should at least pay some attention to what is being said on Twitter, in addition to other places online and offline. Sometimes, the frequency of tweets is a way to gauge that, but he could be doing a lot of listening an not a lot of participating… I think the biggest issue was when he had no presence and made little attempt to understand the medium.

I feel like broken features, over capacity, and fail whales are what deter some people from Twitter. It is very annoying. I am a very active tweeter, but if I get a fail whale or over capacity a few times in a short period of time, I just give up on Twitter for the day.

To assign the title, “NBC Correspondent” to Luke Russert is a fraud.

Everyone knows, he’s there because of NBC’s nepotism. Not because of his strong academic credentials and writing ability. He’s there because of his celebrity deceased father.

That he has not adopted “Twitter”,(arguably the hottest information channel to emerge in years) is indicative of what a mediocre communicator Russert is.

For reference on “real” NBC Correspondents past: Hillary Brown, Irving R. Levine, Garrick Utley, Douglas Kiker, Lloyd Dobbins, Linda Ellerbee, Fred Francis, Bob Dotson,Jim Polk, to name but a few. But to even utter LR’s name in the same sentence as the distinguished group above, is vulgar.

mike whatley
altadena, ca

Maybe Oprah being on will spur him forward.