Twitter Spreads the Word About New Journalistic Web Tool on New York Times

Twitter is a fantastic tool for journalists, as an exchange earlier this week proved. The New York Times quietly unveiled a new way to hyperlink to content – that, incidentally, could prove to streamline journalistic standards on the web – and it was first noted, and named, on Twitter.


The New York Times has been innovating on the web since day one, being one of the first major sites to provide RSS functionality. Their newest web experiment is being called Winer Links, which allows anyone to link to paragraph-specific permalinks, rather than an article as a whole.

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