Comments on: Tracking breaking news on Twitter

By: Twitter business models in the fast and the long

Twitter business models in the fast and the long — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:34:08 +0000

[...] today both reflects and reinforces this trend. For a lot of people, Twitter has already become the go-to source for breaking news. The accuracy and the depth of that news may be a matter of debate, but it’s hard to dispute [...]

By: Turulcsirip - mesi

Turulcsirip - mesi — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:03:47 +0000

[...] @jeanlucr How to track breaking news on Twitter http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/01/tools-you-can-use-to-track-breaking-news-on-twitter/ « előző | következő » mesi — 2009. 02. 25. [...]

By: MrLunk

MrLunk — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:29:05 +0000

You wanna give this tool a go too…

add the words ‘scoop’ and ‘breaking news’ and you have yourself a worldwide alarmscroll of all what people find is breaking news…

http://twitterfall.com/?trend=breaking%20news&trend=scoop&trend=marijuana&trend=ganja&trend=weed&trend=pot&trend=cannabis&trend=hemp

could allso be breaking news about lil bobby who broke his toe when he kicked the pole in uwubuluru somewhere in twinkitown…. ;)

just depends on what people concern to be breaking news to them…

By: Le microblogging et Twitter comme nouvelle boucle d’info : comment se connecter aux meilleurs sources sans se perdre ? | CiTiZeN L. aka Laurent Francois

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:20:04 +0000

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By: Craig Kanalley

Craig Kanalley — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 11:10:50 +0000

OK, great – thanks Matt. Feel free to send feedback on the site too – always looking to make it better.

By: Mathew Ingram

Mathew Ingram — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 04:45:16 +0000

Thanks, Craig — I will check out Breaking Tweets. Sounds like an interesting idea.

As for the Zweibrucken connection, I was only born there because my father was in the Royal Canadian Air Force and he was stationed there for a couple of years in the earlu 1960s.

By: Craig Kanalley

Craig Kanalley — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 04:39:08 +0000

BTW, Matt! I just noticed you were born in Zweibrucken, Germany. Check out my Web site and go to Genealogy section. I have ancestors from this area (Zweibrucken/Bierbach) including Graebel, Schwarz, Candidus, Dessloch, and Weber. If you go to Web Cards, I have all my families there. We may be related?

By: Craig Kanalley

Craig Kanalley — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 04:37:03 +0000

Matt, speaking of breaking news on Twitter, there's a new site called Breaking Tweets (http://www.breakingtweets.com and @breakingtweets) that tracks world news and tweets about that news across the globe. That includes tweets in foreign languages as it translates them to English. Just started the site yesterday and would love if you could check it out. "Stories" are composed in a journalistic style, since I have a journalism background. The biggest reason I started it is that while auto services to search breaking news on Twitter are great, I think having a manual editor sift through them and pick the best ones is well worth it. Perhaps you could help spread the word about it as well? I expect to update daily. Thanks.

By: links for 2009-01-30 « Fleeting Thoughts

links for 2009-01-30 « Fleeting Thoughts — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 01:02:31 +0000

[...] Tracking breaking news on Twitter » Nieman Journalism Lab » Pushing to the Future of Journalism (tags: journalism twitter) [...]

By: Sal.

Sal. — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:04:38 +0000

Excellent feedback and recommendations for using Twitter. Additional tools, services, and articles can be found on the following Twitter Resources and Links Web page:

http://saieva.wordpress.com/twitter-resources-and-links/

By: Mathew Ingram

Mathew Ingram — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:14:45 +0000

A great idea, Daniel.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:08:12 +0000

And for a newsroom, what about using an InFocus projector to put that information on a wall for everyone to track in realtime?