Interview with Nate Ritter: San Diego Fires and Twitter

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Interview with Nate Ritter: San Diego Fires and Twitter

Posted on 13 April 2008 by miss rogue

During the San Diego Fires in the fall of 2007, Nate Ritter, all around nice guy and twitterer took it upon himself to start becoming the aggregator of all pertinent news via his twitter account. The result? Nate became a public hero and is now reaping the benefits from his good deeds by speaking all over the place on how to use Twitter for public good. His story will appear as a case study in The Whuffie Factor.

My camera work sucked big time during the first part of the interview, but what Nate has to say is excellent anyway. Embedded video below (sorry again for those in feed readers)

Thanks Nate!

1 Comments For This Post

nate ritter Says:
April 14th, 2008 at 2:31 am
Tara,

Thanks for your editing job. Great work. I’m sorry my eyes twitched so much as I’m not really used to the cameras yet, but you made me look better than I remember about doing that interview.

Thanks Tara, that was great!

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