Tag: Journalism
Man updates Twitter from site of airplane crash!
Just a quick post about another example of social media being at the forefront of new developments… Regular readers will have seen my posts about Twitter here. (Scroll down/go back and ignore Twitter Digest posts). Here is news of a guy who updated his Twitter immediately after being in a plane crash: Mike Wilson updates [...]
#mumbai: three days as a Twitter journalist
Last week I wrote a post about Twitter and another:Social media – citizen journalism: changing the world: Mumbai Terror. Today I came across this interesting news article written by a Twitter “journalist”: #mumbai: three days as a Twitter journalist The article gives a detailed account of how Twitter was used during the Mumbai horror and [...]
Social media – citizen journalism: changing the world: Mumbai Terror.
Back in the 20th century (I know, sounds awful doesn’t it) we used to read newspapers, listen to the radio or watch the news on television. The internet as a news source was still in its infancy back in 1999, yet today it is supplanting the old ways of doing things. Not only that, new [...]
