GlobalMojo

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.