Stop Press! Twitter First With News Again
And yet again Twitter is showing that it is at the forefront of world news. As CNN made it’s name during the Kuwaiti war in 1991, so Twitter showed during the terrorist attacks in Mumbai that it is the new ‘media’ force to be reckoned with.
With the awful Turkish Airlines plane crash near Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam yesterday, Twitter broke the news first. As the Telegraph put it ‘news of the plane crash involving Turkish Airlines flight 1951 near Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam broke first on Twitter, before being picked up by the mainstream media’. As we’ve said before….Mainstream media is being left behind….
Twitter for Online Video | I Do Info Tech
Mar 25, 2009 @ 01:20:28
[...] is basically video microblogging (vicroBlogging). Just as Twitter provides the outlet for quick and short blogging (microblogging), so 12seconds allows users to [...]
Mainstream Media left Behind in War of the Media | I Do Info Tech
Apr 21, 2009 @ 21:38:42
[...] access, many people in Gaza and Israel were reporting via Blogs and other Social Media (e.g. Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Mixx, WordPress.com etc.) just what was happening. Mainstream media is really [...]