Tweeting First: The New Way Mainstream Media Breaks News

August 18th, 2009 admin

An interesting thing happened in the past 24 hours or so: two major news stories were broken on Twitter. By itself, that’s not very remarkable; news breaks on Twitter all the time. But usually, when news first appears on social media channels such as Twitter, it’s the type of broad-reaching story that affects a lot of people on the ground.


Originally posted on Mashable

 
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