Use Twitter to publish breaking news to your Web site

Matthew Stoff and David Durrett of The Daily Sentinel, a newspaper in East Texas, explain how to use Twitter to publish breaking news from the field to any Web site. "If you can send an e-mail, you can post breaking news," they say:

With this method, a writer or editor can use a Twitter account to publish breaking news directly to a Web site without any technical skills required. After a one-time setup, headlines or breaking news updates sent with this method will appear seamlessly on the Web site, matching the appearance of existing styles on the page. The headline can be easily replaced or removed without any technial knowledge. And the publishing occurs entirely via e-mail so that reporters with e-mail capable cell phones can send updates directly to the Web site from the field using this technique.