Archive for the 'Twitter' Category
A new feature that Twitter says might be available in the next few weeks called “geolocation” should help reporters. The feature uses a mobile phone’s global positioning system (GPS) to allow Twitter users to include a precise location with each tweet. Sounds ideal if you are looking for tweets from a specific place. Ryan Sarver, director of [...]
Hector Macale in Manila tells me via Twitter that a rumour about the death of Cory Aquino started as an SMS. The problem is the speed of the modern news cycle. Corrections sometimes never catch up with the original error.
YouTube’s blog reports that uploads from mobile phones to YouTube jumped by 1,700 per cent in the first half of 2009. And since Friday 19 June 2009, when the iPhone 3GS came out, uploads increased by 400 per cent a day. Thanks to DJ Clark on Twitter for alerting me to the blog post.
Is this an example of how journalists will apply for jobs in the future? PepsiCo wants to hire nine people to cover Internet Week in New York from June 1-8. They will use blogs, Twitter and video to chronicle events. Applicants will be asked to submit a short essay on why they should be chosen, links [...]
A little off the subject of mojos, but a good read about how one Canadian journalist uses his mobile phone. From King’s Journalism Review.
Blogger Amy Gahran has written a considered article about the use of Twitter during the Mumbai bombings, and her attempts to track down rumours related to claims Indian authorities tried to stop tweets about unfolding events. Meanwhile, here is a Reuters article about how people on Twitter fed live updates of developments, “highlighting the emergence [...]
A journalist from Poynter, Steve Myers, used Twitter to cover the presidential nomination conventions. This is slightly off topic for mojos. But Myers provides an interesting insight into ways journalists can use Twitter.
Channel 4 News in London plans to use the liveblogging service CoverItLive to report on today’s House of Commons debate on terrorism. Discussion will focus on a proposed 42-day pre-charge detention period for terrorism suspects.
A UC Berkeley journalism student, James Karl Buck, detained by police in Egypt earlier this month managed to send a one-word tweet (”arrested”). Within hours friends had contacted the American embassy, the world media and his university, where administrators found him a lawyer. The embassy pressured Egyptian police to release Buck, and he walked free [...]
A UK newspaper, The Evening Leader in Mold, used Twitter to cover a football match live between Wrexham and Accrington Stanley on April 26. Tweets sent by text every few minutes by deputy editor Martin Wright appeared both on a widget on the Leader website and on the paper’s Wrexham Twitter account.