Twitter For Breaking News
This morning while I was trying to line up tonight’s Good Question expert, I logged onto Twitter, where a friend had posted about breaking news, a fire in downtown Minneapolis.He thought KARE was live streaming pictures of the fire. I pointed him to the WCCO.com livestream (we’re pretty aggressive about getting live breaking news on the Web). He then wrote this suggesting we have an emergency breaking news feed on Twitter.
Greg asked, we responded. You can follow WCCOBreaking on Twitter here. We’re just starting it, so it’ll be an experiment of sorts. But we’ll send out alerts there when there’s big stuff going on, so you can come over to the website to see what’s happening.
CNN has a similar Twitter feed, I find it helpful. They only send out alerts when it’s really important, so they don’t overwhelm me with dumb alerts. Not to pump up my own employer, but our general manager here is pretty smart about television just being one platform for us to distribute our message. So I like that we’re experimenting with different things.
Hey, one bonus of being on Twitter and following me: I often post our Good Question topics there, looking for people who might want to share thoughts. And those comments make it into TV stories. So it’s another way for your voice to be heard.