Techdirt: Is Twitter The Future Of News?

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Svartling bookmarked on 2008-03-04 internet news twitter

When the UK experienced its largest earthquake in decades, the story was covered first not by the BBC or a traditional wire service, but by a twitter-only news service called BreakingNewsOn.
If mainstream news outlets can get better at tapping these kinds of decentralized news sources, they should be able to report more news with fewer reporters.
- Svartling on 2008-03-04
  
  I don't believe Twitter can be reliable enough to be the "Future of news".

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Catherine Juon
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18 Mar 08

Tom McHale
The Loose Wire blog has a fascinating example of "crowdsourced" journalism in action: When the UK experienced its largest earthquake in decades, the story was covered first not by the BBC or a traditional wire service, but by a twitter-only news service c
04 Mar 08

- svartling
internet news twitter
- When the UK experienced its largest earthquake in decades, the story was covered first not by the BBC or a traditional wire service, but by a twitter-only news service called BreakingNewsOn.
- If mainstream news outlets can get better at tapping these kinds of decentralized news sources, they should be able to report more news with fewer reporters.
  - - svartling on 2008-03-04
    
    I don't believe Twitter can be reliable enough to be the "Future of news".