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.
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
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Let’s hope the idiots don’t spot twitterfall on other telegraph pages. Ruining an interesting experiment. Pah.
@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/
Although, thinking about it, they could just filter out tweets with rude words…
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