Comments on: When protesters are outside, Twitter beats local newspaper site http://bydanielvictor.com/2008/03/31/community-reporting-on-twitter/ How one reporter uses blogging, social networking and the rest of the Web Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:58:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Some thoughts on Twitter « Korr Values http://bydanielvictor.com/2008/03/31/community-reporting-on-twitter/#comment-38 Some thoughts on Twitter « Korr Values Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:36:56 +0000 http://bydanielvictor.com/2008/03/31/community-reporting-on-twitter/#comment-38 [...] impressionistic, real-time, multiply authored news coverage is okay. Daniel Victor gave a wonderful example of Twitter-as-news-coverage a couple weeks ago, when truckers staged a protest in Harrisburg. [...] [...] impressionistic, real-time, multiply authored news coverage is okay. Daniel Victor gave a wonderful example of Twitter-as-news-coverage a couple weeks ago, when truckers staged a protest in Harrisburg. [...]

]]> By: Josh Korr http://bydanielvictor.com/2008/03/31/community-reporting-on-twitter/#comment-31 Josh Korr Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:37:52 +0000 http://bydanielvictor.com/2008/03/31/community-reporting-on-twitter/#comment-31 Nice. I liked the “hangover simulator” line, too. But I wonder about what happens if Twitter takes hold on a grand scale. One of my general worries about getting wrapped up in Twitter is that it could be a massive time-suck going through hundreds or thousands of postlets. What if that happened on a small scale with news stories? Would coverage of, say, a presidential debate or inauguration, or a political rally, or a county fair, be overwhelming if you had to sort through 150 different Twitter feeds or posts on it? Granted, 150 snippets of different points of view could be more interesting, but simply the logistics of getting your news that way could get tiring, it seems. Or maybe it'll be fine for real-time coverage, and then the next day a paper can come back with a broader look at the story. Anyway, interesting example of Twitter-as-news-deliverer in action. Nice. I liked the “hangover simulator” line, too. But I wonder about what happens if Twitter takes hold on a grand scale.

One of my general worries about getting wrapped up in Twitter is that it could be a massive time-suck going through hundreds or thousands of postlets. What if that happened on a small scale with news stories?

Would coverage of, say, a presidential debate or inauguration, or a political rally, or a county fair, be overwhelming if you had to sort through 150 different Twitter feeds or posts on it? Granted, 150 snippets of different points of view could be more interesting, but simply the logistics of getting your news that way could get tiring, it seems. Or maybe it’ll be fine for real-time coverage, and then the next day a paper can come back with a broader look at the story.

Anyway, interesting example of Twitter-as-news-deliverer in action.

]]> By: Maurice Reeves http://bydanielvictor.com/2008/03/31/community-reporting-on-twitter/#comment-30 Maurice Reeves Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:22:29 +0000 http://bydanielvictor.com/2008/03/31/community-reporting-on-twitter/#comment-30 To enhance this discussion I can say that a while ago I started using Twitter as a news feed. Since it has the "TRACK" feature I have tracked certain words, most especially Harrisburg and Amtrak, because I commute to Philadelphia a few times every week on the train. Amtrak's site doesn't list outages and most news outlets aren't responsive enough to let me know when there's an outage or delay somewhere on their rail network. That way I can plan around any problems. I love having that type of immediate and personal information available delivered right to my computer and phone. Cheers! To enhance this discussion I can say that a while ago I started using Twitter as a news feed. Since it has the “TRACK” feature I have tracked certain words, most especially Harrisburg and Amtrak, because I commute to Philadelphia a few times every week on the train. Amtrak’s site doesn’t list outages and most news outlets aren’t responsive enough to let me know when there’s an outage or delay somewhere on their rail network. That way I can plan around any problems.

I love having that type of immediate and personal information available delivered right to my computer and phone.

Cheers!

]]> By: Dani PA http://bydanielvictor.com/2008/03/31/community-reporting-on-twitter/#comment-29 Dani PA Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:20:09 +0000 http://bydanielvictor.com/2008/03/31/community-reporting-on-twitter/#comment-29 I posted a comment on PennLive too, but that group seems to think the truckers are doing a fine job. I posted a comment on PennLive too, but that group seems to think the truckers are doing a fine job.

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