Comments on: Breaking news, Twitter style

By: Luke50

Luke50 — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:32:12 +0000

Its good to see that they took this method to monentize Twitter, as I think using ads like facebook does would really ruin the whole 'clean and easy to use interface that Twitter has to offer' Optimus Prime Costume

By: Search PDF

Search PDF — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 02:10:54 +0000

You don’t need a feed so much as an intern with a Twitter account and a grasp of how to use some basic tools, not just Google.

By: Ruby Web

Ruby Web — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 15:39:09 +0000

Wow, that’s quite a great story. Twitter will push the “Breaking news” bar further if they keep this up. That was absolutely amazing…

By: Angelique van Engelen

Angelique van Engelen — Thu, 22 May 2008 17:10:23 +0000

This event was nothing compared to the media attention for Twitter during the Sichuan (China) earthquake. That really woke everybody up to the potentialities of Twitter. Not only Reuters, but also the BBC, VentureBeat and various others are seriously scanning Twitter. Read this blogpost on ReporTwitters (my blog about journalists using Twitter) for more information about who’s doing what, concerns surrounding accuracy etc.
http://blog.reportwitters.com/2008/05/19 /finally-the-news-media-wake-up-to-twit ter/

Enjoy,
Angelique van Engelen

By: Rex Hammock

Rex Hammock — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:36:34 +0000

Re: “The earliest Twitter reports were wrong.” As I happened to be observing the first Twitter reports, I can say the *were not* wrong. They were “tweets” by individuals like Patrick Rufinni who posted something to the effect, “I just felt something like an explosion.” Others Twitter users in the area posted similar comments. Dave Winer amplified their “tweets.” This was like a person calling the newspaper and saying, “I just saw something that may or may not be news.” The process of how news is reported is not what is new. The ability of eye-witnesses to provide real-time facets of the story to a broad audience is what is new.

By: Spuds

Spuds — Wed, 07 May 2008 08:26:06 +0000

The true power of Twitter

By: LiveCrunch

LiveCrunch — Wed, 07 May 2008 03:03:57 +0000

So what now, twitter is like Nostradamus? People come on , try to catch any news on twitter for real.

By: Tom Jeffs

Tom Jeffs — Wed, 07 May 2008 00:07:37 +0000

Doesn’t anyone seem to care that the earliest reports on Twitter were WRONG? Cripes, does citizen journalism mean accuracy doesn’t matter anymore?

By: @Stephen

@Stephen — Tue, 06 May 2008 22:33:12 +0000

You don’t need a feed so much as an intern with a Twitter account and a grasp of how to use some basic tools, not just Google.