For everyone who has ever found themselves using TweetDeck, it is easy to draw parallels between sensationalism and Twitter. For example, when the report of a possible gunman at Virginia Tech hit the Twitterverse in August, sensationalist posts flooded newsfeeds throughout the duration of the day. This caused the incident to be the topic of […]
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Twitter: entertainment or hard news source?
Posted by: heatherblevins | November 15, 2011 | No Comment |There are many reasons to live-tweet. There could be a guest speaker in class or a panel that you are listening to. Beat reporters also live-tweet from sporting events. But can live-tweeting be used for entertainment? Andy Boyle was just a regular customer at a Burger King in Boston, Massachusetts when he overhead a couple […]
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Tags: Andy Boyle, Carrie Delisio, entertainment, live-tweeting, Rhiannon Coppin, Storify, Twitter, Velocity of news
Tags: Andy Boyle, Carrie Delisio, entertainment, live-tweeting, Rhiannon Coppin, Storify, Twitter, Velocity of news
Social media and the velocity of news. And France.
Posted by: sarahe | October 3, 2011 | No Comment |I attempted to create a timeline of the velocity of news. This was not exactly an easy feat but three websites and three new accounts later I finally succeeded. Hopefully. Maybe. The velocity of news: a timeline. While creating this I noticed a couple of things. The velocity of news changed rapidly in periods of […]