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The Effect of Tweeting on Journalists’ Reporting Practices in Kuwait


 The social and the technical mechanisms of Twitter have encouraged many journalists to use it as part of their daily journalism practices. Journalists use Twitter for various purposes, such as newsgathering, reporting and sourcing news. Twitter has become an official and unofficial source for news for many journalists and news organizations. This study examines how Twitter is affecting the way Kuwaiti journalists source news, and asks whether Twitter has affected their journalistic practices. The results support previous studies that Twitter represents a platform in which journalists source, seek and cover news stories.