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Twitter

Mark
March 19th, 2008 · 2 Comments

I was talking with a tech savvy newsagent yesterday and he’d never heard of Twitter. I’d be interested to know if anyone reading here is playing with it - I only established my Twitter account a couple of months ago.  It’s fascinating.

Twitter helps people keep in touch. It’s also a mini blogging (news) platform for some - a good source of keeping up to date with sports scores or news as it happens if you’re following this right people.

The Blog Herald has a good report on Twitter and news habits.  Most major news sites overseas offer Twitter feeds.

Category: Blogging · Media disruption

2 responses so far ↓

  • 1 andrew pascoe // Mar 20, 2008 at 8:16 PM

    Mark, there’s a few good services that go beyond a push news feed too - one share trading service in the US is using it with push AND pull functions - http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2008/03/a-twitter-stock.html

  • 2 mark // Mar 21, 2008 at 10:32 AM

    Thanks for this link Andrew. Twitter is fascinating and frustrating. It’s been a challenge to get the SMS side working here but once that was resolved the news from around the world flooded in.

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