Lost Remote: How WCCO broke a story on Twitter
August 19th, 2009Posted by Judith Townend in Editors' pick, Social media and blogging
From Lost Remote, a story about how a TV station broke a story via Twitter in the US.
“When a source told WCCO-TV’s Mark Rosen that Brett Favre would join the Minnesota Vikings, he sent out a tweet. Moments later, other reporters re-tweeted the news, and it was piped out to Facebook. Soon, WCCO was one of the top three trending topics on Twitter, reports MinnPost, sending a big traffic burst to WCCO.com. The tweet beat WCCO’s TV coverage, but not by much.”
Related article at MinnPost.
Tags: brett favre, Facebook, Lost Remote, mark rosen, Minnesota, Minnesota Vikings, Twitter, United States, wcco, WCCO TV
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