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Links on Twitter: Sessions per user at top newspaper sites, Distill magazine’s iPhone app, “tweets” in 1889 newspaper column

By Twitter Nov. 17, 2009, 6:46 p.m.

The top 30 newspaper sites averaged 3.16 sessions per user in October, Nielsen estimates http://tr.im/F8MX »

Lots to learn from the iPhone app for design mag Distill. It’s beautiful, but I’m most impressed by the ads http://tr.im/F8SB »

If AP cuts happen, note that CEO Tom Curley said his employees were “fine” last monthhttp://tr.im/BDFp (2nd graf of speech) »

To me, this jumbled “News in a Nutshell” column from an 1889 newspaper looks a lot like a stream of tweets http://tr.im/F9Ds »

POSTED Nov. 17, 2009, 6:46 p.m.

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