otal, 73,398 of the Tweets (approximately 7%) were related to the 2018 U.S. midterms. The most common hashtags were #MAGA (included in approximately 38,000 Tweets), #ReleasetheMemo (included in approxim. tely 38,000 Tweets) and #IslamisTheProblem (included in approximately 18,000 Tweets). In 2015, three of the accounts in this set ran a total ...
Verifying Tweets when news breaks: Q&A with the NYT’s
How is Twitter becoming a source of news for reporters in breaking news situations? Twitter first proved to be valuable for breaking news back in 2009 when my colleague, Patrick LaForge , spotted a Twitter post and photo of a plane in the Hudson River. The plane landed just a few blocks from our midtown Manhattan office and we learned about it ...
Live-tweeting TV news: Q&A with KCAL9’s Melanie Woodrow
I had seen them live-tweet during long-form investigations. I wanted to encourage people to watch the story and talk about human trafficking. I ran the idea by my news director and managers, and they were game to let me give it a try. Why did you decide to live-tweet for this particular story?
How a world leader live-tweeted breaking news - Twitter Blog
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News for Bostonians, by Bostonians - Twitter Blog
In all, 61Fresh identified a group of 250,000 local Twitter users who could help choose the news and followed them all - in fact the number is always growing as the team find new users. The team created its own algorithms to determine where Tweets were originating, and used filters to identify top stories (one filter lets users filter out any ...
Arcade Fire provides first glimpse of new album on Twitter
Arcade Fire, in an unprecedented move, released news about its new album to one fan on Twitter. When @fifferwright tweeted to one of his favorite bands, he might not have expected a reply. What he got was much more:
The #NFL on Twitter: Week 3
While the drama played out, Twitter was your home turf for all the @NFL conversations. Most-mentioned #NFL players and teams In a rematch of Super Bowl 48, Russell Wilson ( @DangeRussWilson ) and Marshawn Lynch ( @MoneyLynch ) led the defending champion @Seahawks to a dramatic overtime victory over Peyton Manning and the @Broncos .
Inside the NDP leadership race on Twitter
Sep 14, 2017 · In recent years, Twitter has launched dozens of emojis worldwide for key hashtags around elections, debates and political discourse. Here in Canada, past Twitter emojis have been launched for the 2017 provincial election in British Columbia (#BCVotes) and the 2017 Conservative Party of Canada leadership race (#CPCldr). The candidates
#TwitterTip
To immediately find some of the top news sources on Twitter, he clicks the “Browse Interests” link below his “Who to Follow” suggestions, and is presented with a list of categories. By selecting “News,” he quickly finds and follows @TheEconomist, @kingsthings (Larry King), and the New York Times’ photography account @nytimesphoto ...
#OnlyOnTwitter: Our collective past
We talk a lot about how Twitter is an amazing real-time platform. The news of the hour, delivered to you within seconds. But while Twitter is always bringing us closer to the present, sometimes our Tweets are a way of looking back to the past. This week’s #OnlyOnTwitter is about looking backwards. We’ve collected musicians’ memories of MCA.