FromtheFrontline: More Twitter conventions would have aided Mumbai coverage
December 12th, 2008Posted by Judith Townend in Citizen journalism, Editors' pick, Online Journalism
“As Twitter use becomes more widespread, so it becomes increasingly difficult to pinpoint the type of information you are looking for,” writes Daniel Bennett.
“A vast of sea of tweets with #Mumbai quickly developed, and if you were a journalist trying to find eyewitness accounts you found yourself painstakingly wading through them all. Those who did probably found it was time well spent, but is there a better way?” Bennett asks.
