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By: 3.2 De uitwerking: nu « J1d2010's Blog

3.2 De uitwerking: nu « J1d2010's Blog — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:01:28 +0000

[...] News. Niet alleen óver Twitter, maar ook wordt Twitter gequoot. Blijkbaar is Twitter een nieuwe nieuwsbron geworden voor menig persinstantie. En dat werkt twee kanten op: het nieuws komt bij twitteraars [...]

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Fri, 06 Mar 2009 08:27:50 +0000

[...] Twitter – Worlds Fastest News Source (viralblog.com) [...]

By: Matthijs Roumen

Matthijs Roumen — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 18:23:19 +0000

Hi Cindy, thanks for the comment! My point for this posting wasn't really about the use for journalists and newssources, but more the fact that different kind of aspects are making Twitter huge and global; news is one of them. See also this presentation by Evan Williams at TED. Twitter is becoming useful in so many ways. Its just a matter of time before it'll be totally mainstream.

By: Cindy King

Cindy King — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 15:08:44 +0000

When the plane went down in the Hudson there was a tweet by someone on a rescue boat along the lines of “plane down in the Hudson and we are going to rescue them”. Since so many people use twitter on their mobile phones we will be hearing a lot of the first news from twitter.

I just installed (yet another) toolbar yesterday that allows me to see some images and the preview window for a video in my twitter screen. If tools like this become common I can see Twitter being more important than CNN of breaking news. Someone will almost always be closer to an accident than a camera team.

I use Twitter as part of my business (@CindyKing) and find it very useful. My business is not breaking news, but Twitter is a great tool for business, it’s not just for the news.

stumbled.

By: Get International Clients

Get International Clients — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 14:11:54 +0000

Sunday Blog Carnival #44…

Welcome to the 1 March, 2009 edition of the Get International Clients Sunday Blog Carnival.
How Social Media Is Being Used In Europe
Neville Hobson @jangles presents Presenting social media in context posted at NevilleHobson.com saying “I had t…

By: Matthijs Roumen

Matthijs Roumen — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:59:11 +0000

Jep, absolutely.
Its remarkable to see that highly financed initiatives like (the Dutch) Skoeps failed, while services like Twitter enable the same effect.

By: Twitter - just the worlds Fastest News Source? | Cultural Fuel Blog

Twitter - just the worlds Fastest News Source? | Cultural Fuel Blog — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:09:18 +0000

[...] In his article, Matthijs Roumen writes Twitter isn’t the new kid on the block anymore. Globally, the amount of users is growing day by day. Today Twitter showed me once again the viral spreading speed it has to offer. News is going like crazy and doesn’t only reach a tremendous amount of people, but also reaches high influental sources like newspapers. [...]

By: Igor Beuker

Igor Beuker — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:53:57 +0000

Citizen journalism 2.0?

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