If news organizations or journalists are still looking for a reason to devote resources to social media, Microsoft’s deal with Twitter shows how an investment in social media could return better search engine results. Let’s take U2′s streamed concert at the Rose Bowl for an example. Using Bing’s twitter search to look for Rose Bowl brings up [...]
Journalists have traditionally decided when a story ends, taking into consideration the amount of new information, open questions, public interest and a slew of other factors. But when do stories powered by streams of information end? Each image below links to news about President Barack Obama and the Nobel Prize, as gathered by real-time search [...]
Journalists can use Twitter to as a live reporting tool, but what if you are writing a story from afar and are looking for quotes as provided by “citizen” journalists at an event? Simply adding a widget that pulls in tweets about the event will likely just add confusion and repetition. For example, author Chris Brogan [...]
As I continue to explore the details for a storystreaming platform, I need to figure out how tweets should be integrated into a story. The challenge, of course, is that there is no one right way. Just as a third person point of view works for some stories, but not all, tweets will need to [...]
