BBC dot.life blog: Twitter and the China earthquake
Posted on May 14, 2008 - Filed Under Editors' pick, China, Twitter | 1 Comment
BBC Technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones muses on Robert Scoble’s claim that Twitter broke the news of the earthquake in China quicker than United States Geological Survey, which provides early warnings of seismic events.
“Let’s see, as this story unfolds, whether this is the moment when Twitter comes of age as a platform which can bring faster coverage of a major news event than traditional media, while allowing participants and onlookers to share their experiences,” suggests Mr Cellan-Jones.
Read More..>> Full story...Social Media Journalist: “The problem with most news organisations is a lack of editorial understanding of social media” Kevin Anderson, Guardian blogs editor
Posted on May 9, 2008 - Filed Under Newspapers, RSS, guardian, Social Media Journalist, Bookmarking, social networks, Facebook, multimedia experiments, Online Journalism, online communities, blogs, Twitter, Journalism | Leave a Comment
Journalism.co.uk talks to reporters across the globe working at the collision of journalism and social media about how they see it changing their industry. This week, Kevin Anderson, Guardian.co.uk.
1) Who are you and what do you do?
Kevin Anderson, blogs editor at Guardian.co.uk.
My title is misnomer seeing as desk editors handle most of the commissioning.
My role […]
Twitter Development Group: Spammy Twitter accounts to get the chop
Posted on May 8, 2008 - Filed Under Editors' pick, Twitter | Leave a Comment
Twitter will remove accounts of users who have violated its terms of service as throw a heap of spam through the system.
The previous policy was to freeze those accounts - now they will be removed - say developers on this thread from their Twitter Development Talk Google group.
Read More..>> Full story...Channel 4 news using Twitter for behind-the-scenes coverage
Posted on May 1, 2008 - Filed Under Channel 4, Broadcasting, Twitter | Leave a Comment
The Channel 4 news team is making good use of microblogging service Twitter setting up two accounts: one for news about the programme as it goes to air; the other filled with titbits by the newsroom’s blogger.
I’m yet to test how responsive they are to followers, but still this is a good example of using […]
Read More..>>The European News Interactivity Index
Posted on April 30, 2008 - Filed Under social networks, Twitter, online communities, Technology, Online Journalism | Leave a Comment
Nicolas Kayser-Bril, contributor to the Online Journalism Blog and Observatoire des Media, has created an index of the interactive tools used by European news websites.
The index compares and contrasts which media organisations make use of tools such as Twitter, mobile alerts and social networks, as well as noting their policy on user registration for interactive […]
Twitter service soars to new heights in Japan
Posted on April 29, 2008 - Filed Under google, business, social networks, Twitter, Online Journalism | Leave a Comment
Last week’s launch of Twitter in Japan is showing early signs of success, reports ReadWriteWeb.
The new version was born when it was noticed that a significant percentage of Twitter usage was originating from Japan, despite the service being in English.
Now the dedicated Japanese version has been launched many sites are predicting an explosion of Twitter […]
News.com: Twitter gets more money
Posted on April 28, 2008 - Filed Under Editors' pick, Twitter | Leave a Comment
CNET is reporting that Twitter last week took an additional $15 million or $20 million in funding last week.
A source told News.com about the extra money being made available to the company.
Last summer it took a first round funding of $5 million.
Read More..>> Full story...Readwriteweb: How we use Twitter for journalism
Posted on April 28, 2008 - Filed Under Editors' pick, Twitter, online communities, Online Journalism, Journalism | Leave a Comment
The good people at Readwriteweb explain how they use Twitter for journalism.
Pretty much the same as us at Journalism.co.uk - they say it falls into four distinct categories:
The discovery of breaking stories
People they follow tipping them off
Interviews
“When we got to interview Mark Zuckerberg at SXSW this year, we solicited interview questions via Twitter.”
Quality assurance
Readers picking up on their factual errors.
Promotion
Tipping off the people that follow them
News.com: Is Twitter so addictive that we can’t live without it?
Posted on April 22, 2008 - Filed Under Editors' pick, Twitter, Technology | Leave a Comment
The major disruption to Twitter last week was made all the more embarrassing by its huge popularity, says Charles Cooper, but are its recurring technical problems scaling the service a blip that Twitterholics will put up with?
Cooper doesn’t think so, a word of warning from him:
“Is Twitter so addictive that we can’t live without it? Don’t believe the hype.
“I know a lot of tweet-deprived people who made it through the weekend in fine fettle.
“Remember what happened to Friendster? The service started to bog down and failed to recover in time.
“The upshot: It lost its mojo and its users defected to the likes of MySpace and Facebook.”
Cooper adds that if the gremlins are dispatched from the Twitter machine then the service could have a bright future - but warns that the next fad is just round the corner if problems persist.
Read More..>> Full story...Birmingham Post to launch Twitter news feed
Posted on April 17, 2008 - Filed Under Newspapers, Twitter | Leave a Comment
The Birmingham Post is to use microblogging service Twitter to push out the news feed from its website.
How did editor Marc Reeves announce the development? By Twitter of course.
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Earlier this week the Plymouth Herald began using the service to deliver customised messages to its readers.
UPDATE - The Post’s Twitter feed is now up and running, […]
