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Continued our Twitter experiment at WKYC.com with two live “remotes” this week.

Tuesday, Web Reporter Kim Wendel posted 73 tweets at the Obama town hall / rally at BW. They are re-posted at the bottom of this story.

After increasing the number of people we follow from 51 on Monday to 530+ on Tuesday, we saw the number of people who were following us jump to over 100.

One Twitter user said we were spamming, but at least two users commented favorably on our efforts.

We’re still debating whether to have one “official” WKYC Twitter account, or just funnel multiple reporters’ Twitter feeds into one master one. For now, I think that having one account is easier for others to reach out to.

Besides this week’s experiments, we’ve been intermittently using Twitter to let web users know about live video streams. I think we’ll step up that effort this week. In fact, we added our Twitter feed to our live streaming page — so users could watch the event, chat with other viewers and get updates from Kim at the event.

Here’s the WKYC.com Twitter account: twitter.com/wkyc

LostRemote: Covering the news with Twitter

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