I’m in Twitter List Heaven. Well, actually, now that Twitter has expanded the capabilities of its list feature, just about the only category I haven’t made a new list for is heaven.
Before Twitter updated its lists feature last … Read more
Whenever a commercial airs during a TV show, Twitter not only determines where and when it ran, but can identify users on Twitter who tweeted about the program where the ad aired during that program. We believe a user engaged enough with a TV show to tweet about it very likely saw the commercials as well.
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A study of the "geography of Twitter" compares, among many other data sets, what it calls "Twitter versus mainstream news media." This part of Kalev Leetaru, Shaowen Wang, Guofeng Cao, Anand Padmanabhan and Eric Shook's study compared the geographic data from about five weeks' worth of tweets with locations from more than 3 million Google News articles during the same period.
"Does Twitter cover the same locations as the mainstream media, or do they discuss very different areas of the world?" they asked.
In one map, they compared "georeferenced Twitter Decahose (blue) and English Google News (red) geographic coverage" between Oct. 23, 2012 and Nov. 30, 2012.
"Areas that are blue have stronger Twitter representation," they write while, "while red areas are covered more closely by mainstream media, and white areas have an equal balance."
No, Twitter doesn’t have ambitions to be a news operation. Because Twitter is so central to what a lot of newsrooms are doing, naturally there’s a lot of hype around this position. No, Twitter has no editorial team. We’re not out there curating news, or saying, “here’s the source that you have to go to.” We’re not writing stories. We’re simply providing a platform for other people to do so.
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The other thing is that Twitter had a “head of news” previously. Adam Sharp was the head of news, politics and social good, and is currently leading politics and social good, and we have an interim head of news, Andrew Fitzgerald, who has a news background as other team members do. So it’s a new job, but this sort of thing has existed at Twitter already.
As the story of three formerly missing women in Cleveland develops Tuesday, the city's Department of Public Safety is encouraging journalists to use Twitter to get credentialed for a press conference this morning.
Media planning to come to 9am presser will need credentials. To speed process, send contact info via DM pls.
(DM means "direct message," a way of communicating privately on Twitter.)
Reached by email, Cleveland DPS communications planner Erica Creech says she's the person behind the @CLESafety account and that this is the first time the department has used Twitter in this way.
"We were short staffed and I was trying to keep up with all the additions to our distribution list but wanted to get info out so I gave it a shot...seems to work so long as you can then keep up with Twitter," she writes. "Since I can more easily access Twitter via mobile devices, it is always handy...plus messages are shorter, so less typing."
LiveScience.com | Hedonometer.com
Twitter is not just useful for posting erroneous breaking news updates; it's also useful for measuring the world's mood, as long as you write in English and use certain words that can be counted.
A new website called Hedonometer.com uses tweets to ascertain whether the global mood is positive or negative, reports LiveScience.com's Stephanie Pappas. For negative days, the site notes tweets with words like "victims" and "tragedy," and phrases like "hahaha" for positive tweet days, Pappas says. According to one of Hedonometer's developers, University of Vermont mathematician Chris Danforth, the site is "trying to take advantage of people's expressions online and measure something that is really important." (more...)
While attending the 2011 Excellence in Journalism Conference in my hometown of New Orleans, I convinced myself to sit in on a few social-media sessions. I wasn’t participating in social media personally, but I knew its influence was continuing to … Read more
I love Twitter lists, and a while back I wrote about how they can help you as a journalist. So you may be surprised that I’m now going to tell you why you might not want to be on … Read more
Terrible events such as yesterday’s bombings at the Boston Marathon have always meant “all hands on deck” for news organizations, with staffers pulled off their regular beats to contribute.
But the endpoint of the newsgathering and reporting is no longer … Read more
