{"id":954,"date":"2008-05-20T23:25:19","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T22:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=954"},"modified":"2008-05-21T17:46:23","modified_gmt":"2008-05-21T16:46:23","slug":"twitter-as-a-news-resource","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2008\/05\/twitter-as-a-news-resource\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter as a news resource&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">J<\/span><strong>eff Jarvis<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/2008\/may\/19\/digitalmedia.socialnetworking\" target=\"_blank\">writes<\/a> on the newsgathering potential of <strong>Twitter<\/strong>, and I see a problem:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Developers at the BBC and Reuters have picked up on the potential for this. They are working on applications to monitor Twitter, the Twitter search engine Summize, and other social-media services &#8211; Flickr, YouTube, Facebook &#8211; for news catchwords such as &#8220;earthquake&#8221; and &#8220;evacuation&#8221;. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Whilst you and I are getting the f%^&#038; out of there, the BBC will be looking for people who are &#8220;evacuating.&#8221; If you can Twitter that, you were either nowhere near&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Jarvis writes on the newsgathering potential of Twitter, and I see a problem: Developers at the BBC and Reuters have picked up on the potential for this. They are working on applications to monitor Twitter, the Twitter search engine Summize, and other social-media services &#8211; Flickr, YouTube, Facebook &#8211; for news catchwords such as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[15,377],"class_list":["post-954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","tag-bbc","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}