DNA09: Twittering – is it possible to tell the news in 140 characters or fewer?
March 5th, 2009Posted by Judith Townend in Events, Online Journalism
Journalism.co.uk’s very own @lauraoliver is joining a panel led by Wired.com associate editor @benhammersley at Digital News Affairs 2009. The others are Jeff Jarvis, blogger at BuzzMachine (@jeffjarvis); Robin Hamman, senior social media consultant at Headshift (@cybersoc); Darren Waters, technology editor at BBC News website (@darrenwaters); Bert Brouwers, editor-in-chief of Sp!ts (@brewbart); Katharina Borchert, editor-in-chief of Der Westen and MD of WAZ media (@lyssaslounge).
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March 5th, 2009 at 2:30 pm
[...] A couple of crowd-sourced questions were taken by the Twitter panel, but some were missed. We’ll post them here and hope the panelists will answer them via Twitter or in the comments below. gemmanewby: #dna140 do you think it possible to make an entire news programme using only twitter and first person tweets as your source? ernstpoulsen: Question: What’s the difference between the conversation on twitter and facebook’s status-updates? #dna140 dna#09 hatmandu: #DNA140 The question should be: “why *can’t* you tell the news in 140 characters?” Noodlepie: @jamierussell be interested to know if the panel are looking at ways to increase “retweetness”. Very big traffic driver, no? #dna09 #dna140 [...]