http://heatherjaybillings.com/blog/2010/04/the-baja-quake-how-news-should-prepare-for-twitter/ Geeks are journalists, too. Sat, 27 Oct 2012 23:43:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://heatherjaybillings.com/blog/2010/04/the-baja-quake-how-news-should-prepare-for-twitter/#comment-18 Leslie-Jean Thornton Tue, 06 Apr 2010 05:36:38 +0000 http://hbilling.personal.asu.edu/wordpress/?p=259#comment-18 You are right on target with this. I was thinking of several freebie apps that could have geographically located tweets -- news sites could easily have used them. News orgs should also be ready to curate hashtagged tweets, and should provide Twitter lists of resources that they cull from tweets and other sources. I discovered several unknown-to-me Twitter news services based in Arizona from tracking #Phoenix, #earthquake and #quake yesterday. None of them were with so-called legacy media. You are right on target with this. I was thinking of several freebie apps that could have geographically located tweets — news sites could easily have used them. News orgs should also be ready to curate hashtagged tweets, and should provide Twitter lists of resources that they cull from tweets and other sources. I discovered several unknown-to-me Twitter news services based in Arizona from tracking #Phoenix, #earthquake and #quake yesterday. None of them were with so-called legacy media.

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