Thursday, March 05, 2009

Sky have a twitter correspondent

More news on the power of twitter comes from Tech Crunch who report that Sky News has become the first mainstream broadcaster to have a twitter correspondent.

Ruth Barnett is now their “Twitter correspondent” - to scour Twitter for potentially breaking news stories, speaks volumes. It also serves as a warning to those who might think that what they say on Twitter “in the clear” (in public) will go unnoticed by the wider world.


But the article makes a good point

the mainstream news media is watching us on Twitter. We in turn are watching them. But unlike the old days, you can block people on Twitter. Will Twitter users start to block journalists they don’t want to be followed by? Will news outlets start to not declare their Twitter profiles, or order to avoid this?


ht-Benji Lanyado

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