Twitter users play with Telegraph’s Twitterfall #Budget feature
April 20th, 2009Posted by Judith Townend in Citizen journalism, Social media and blogging
Good old online altruism eh? Twitter users have seized upon the opportunity to get their uncensored Tweets published on the Telegraph’s Budget page.
A Twitterfall feature – which now seems to have been removed – embedded on the side of the Telegraph.co.uk Budget 2009 page, picked up Tweets which referred to the UK Budget 2009.
Funnily enough, the Twitter masses seemed more interested in expressing opinions on the Telegraph’s editorial content, or saying hello to their mums, than adding to the economic debate.
@DarkPhnx perhaps sums it up best.
A sample from earlier below – we seem to have captured it at a cleaner moment. Or check out this grab from @Noodlepie.
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April 20th, 2009 at 4:43 pm
I wonder who started off with all the abuse? Either way – the Telegraph website wins with all the hits, and with all the exposure. So not so bad after all…
Another Twitterfall screengrab here: http://twitpic.com/3np80
April 20th, 2009 at 7:01 pm
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April 20th, 2009 at 7:06 pm
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April 20th, 2009 at 7:46 pm
Let’s hope the idiots don’t spot twitterfall on other telegraph pages. Ruining an interesting experiment. Pah.
April 21st, 2009 at 12:03 am
@malcolm coles – indeed, not the first time Telegraph.co.uk has used Twitterfall (previously without incident, thankfully) – http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2009/03/27/telegraph-uses-twitterfall-for-live-football-pages/
April 21st, 2009 at 9:26 am
Although, thinking about it, they could just filter out tweets with rude words…
April 22nd, 2009 at 1:07 am
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April 22nd, 2009 at 11:30 am
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April 22nd, 2009 at 6:32 pm
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