All entries tagged: text messaging

How a CNN user propelled the network into Twitter’s top slot โ€” or why CNN headlines are so short

James Cox just wanted the news on his phone. But the year was 2006, and if you can remember that distant age, getting the latest headlines on your mobile device wasn’t yet trivially easy.
CNN already had a longstanding email news alert that hit inboxes whenever a plane crashed or foreign capital fell. And out in [...]

15 comments | Posted by Zachary M. Seward | April 16, 2009 | 3:57 pm

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