In my time at The San Francisco Standard, I experimented extensively with Twitter/X as a tool for audience engagement. My work on this platform included live Twitter Spaces with elected officials, curated Twitter Moments, audience polls, and dozens of video-heavy threads breaking down complex stories and providing timely updates on breaking news events.

Below is a selection of some of my most successful Twitter threads, including the California News Publishers Association award-winning social rollout of The Standard’s coverage of former SF fire commissioner Don Carmignani’s alleged bear spray attacks on homeless people (below left).

Each embedded post below is the first post in a longer thread. Please click through to Twitter/X to read the full threads.