Meghann: Twitter, Facebook Help SR

Meghann Cuniff: I used to be a big believer that it wasn’t worth the SR using Twitter and Facebook because all we’re doing is promoting websites that aren’t ours. BUT think about it this way –- Twitter and Facebook are great for linking, and they’re where a lot of web traffic is already. Most everything we post ends up being a link back to our website. Facebook and Twitter overall don’t care about North Idaho and Spokane news, but the people who have added the SR’s page certainly do. Lots of people are on Facebook everyday. Why not try to get them to read news through Spokesman.com?

• Brent questions value to The Spokesman-Review of Facebook, Twitter
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Question: Does Facebook & Twitter help or hinder the mission of a newspaper to survive the recession and the industry’s common woes?