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WASHINGTON – With improvements in smartphones and the explosion of social media, 鶹 would like to include what you see and experience on Inauguration Day in its coverage.
If you’d like to be part of Team 鶹, you might want to set up your smartphone today, so you’ll be ready Monday.
Here’s what to do:
- Download the free 鶹 Glass-Enclosed Nerve App:
- Download the free and, if necessary, set-up an account. Make sure to follow and your favorite
- Download the free . Make sure to .
Here’s how to help on Twitter:
Let’s say the Metro parking lot you arrive at Monday morning is full. Tweet it, including your location and #鶹 in your under-140 character Twitter message.
After you launch the Twitter app on your phone, your tweet might look like this:
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That way, anyone using Twitter who searches #鶹 will find your helpful heads-up, and choose another parking lot.
The 鶹 newsroom also will be monitoring #鶹, so your tweet can be integrated into 鶹’s on-air and coverage.
Here’s another scenario: let’s say when you get downtown you come across a vendor dressed as Abraham Lincoln.
Since a picture is worth a thousand words, snap one, and include it in your tweet. Once you download your mobile Twitter app, you’ll see how to easily attach a photo. And don’t forget to use #鶹 in your tweet.
Here’s how to be a part of our coverage on Facebook:
Launch the Facebook app on your phone, and search for the 鶹 Radio page.
Under each story is a Comment option, click on that, and type in your observation or thoughts.
On Instagram
Download the app from or from .
Take photos and upload them to your Instagram account. Put #鶹 in your caption.
On 鶹.com
You’ll be able to upload your inauguration photos to .
If email is your only option:
You can send your information and pictures to webmail@wtop.com. The downside of that is only we in the newsroom can see what you send, unlike with Twitter and Facebook, in which you’re helping others real-time.
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Thanks in advance for being part of 鶹’s coverage.
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