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#jpod: How journalists are using Google+

July 29th, 2011Posted by in Podcast, Social media and blogging

Barely a month old and already with more than 20 million users, Google+ has been adopted by many journalists. But how are they using it? Will it change the way we use other social networks? And, as one journalist forecast soon after its launch, could it be the “death of Twitter”?

Journalism.co.uk’s Sarah Marshall speaks to two journalists who have embraced the newest social network: Benjamin Cohen, technology correspondent for Channel 4 News, and freelance broadcast journalist Robert Schutlz.

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  • Chie Elliott

    Interesting interviews. I love Benjamin Cohen’s colleague’s description of Google+ a result of FB and Twitter having had sex (!)… It certainly does incorporate aspects of both platforms. As to Google + ever completely replacing Twitter, I am a bit sceptical. Maybe it is a preferable platform for journalists who want to post longer posts and follow the discussion that ensues, but unless almost all of his/her followers also migrate to Google+ too, they would be restricting the reach of what they are broadcasting on there.

    In a way, the current merit of Twitter is that it is “democratic” in that it excludes nobody, even non-Twitter users. Can non-Google+ users also see everything a user (in this case a journalist) is posting?

    The problem with the availability of so many social media platforms is that our time tends to get more and more fragmented between them, and soon our messages might start becoming diluted as well, as people flick through them furiously, unable to focus and prioritise. Just the thought is starting to make me dizzy…

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