February 11, 2008
Microjournalism describes the new phenomenon of reporting via text messages that are distributed by microblogging services such as Twitter.Some reporters have used these postings, known as tweets in Twitter-land, to provide the latest news from the presidential campaign trail. Given that these updates are limited to 140 characters and are usually filed on tiny Blackberry keyboards, they provide an especially roughdraft of history.
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