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TV and Twitter

PTBoardOp94

PTBoardOp94

In my TV market, Evansville, IN, WFIE and WEHT have started tweeting regularly.

Every WEHT reporter, anchor, and even the news directory has their own Twitter page. They're posing questions to their viewers/readers at 6p and reading a handful of them at 10p. Most of the reporters tease their nightly stories with a tweet.
http://twitter.com/NEWS25jchrisos

As far as I know, WFIE isn't using tweets on their newscasts, but they are heavily promoting their personalities twitter pages.

ABC's Nightline has been using Tweets to a certain degree on their "Closing Arguments" segment.

Have you all noticed similar trends in your markets or on other national programs?
 
Twitter seems to be really popular all of a sudden.
I'm not a fan. I think it's boring knowing what people are doing every 5 minutes.

However, with media, that may be a different story.
Breaking news suddenly becomes to the second news.

That's not a bad idea in a world where each news source is trying harder and harder to be the best "instant information".

Twitter seems to win the "instant information" award.
 
ABC 33/40 in Birmingham, AL and the ABC 33/40 weather team each have Twitter feeds. CNN and Fox News are on the bandwagon (probably MSNBC too but I don't watch them enough to know). This really sprang up overnight. I checked it out a few months ago and there was nothing to write home about...basically social networking with nothing but status updates.

It's going to be interesting to see which of these big services becomes THE dominant thing to use. For a while it was Facebook, then it looked like things were starting to shift in MySpace's direction, then back to Facebook, now Twitter? I'm just not sure that all of them can be sustained at this level of growth for that long. Not to mention it becomes a downright hassle to go to each of those websites to check one's profiles.
 
The thing I hate about Twitter is a lot of "famous" people hire people to write for them.

I wonder how long it'll be before they "outsource" that to India?

;)
 
Is it just me or do other news viewers also resent the use of "phone-ins" by ill-informed dumbsmucks from the Wal-Mart parking lot? :mad:

I tune in to hear *professionals* deliver and interpret the news of the day affecting me. As soon as they begin augmenting their 'coverage' with the man-in-the-street I hit the remote. :mad: :mad: :mad:
 
This week's Doonesbury strips had it dead on. Some of the best in ages, pointing to the overuse of a medium just because it's there.
 
Mark said:
The thing I hate about Twitter is a lot of "famous" people hire people to write for them.
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I'm a big Twitter Fan. One of the biggest problems with it is if someone is the actually celebrity and do they do their own Tweeting.

There is a guy in Phoenix AZ who signed up at Shaquille O'Neal. That 'forced' Shaq to get the name The_Real_Shaq. BTW, they met each other in January and Shaq was cool with it.

Shaq is a great example of a person who updates his page himself. He is very interactive and sponsors mini-contests. On the other hand is President Obama who was Tweeting/had someone Tweet for him throughout the campaign. He's updated twice since the election, last time being 19 January. I never Followed his Tweets because I thought he was using his Twitter Friends to get out his message. He is busy running the Free World but no time to Tweet?
 
Twitter and "tweeting" is a typical fad: overexposed and with a limited shelf life. It's followed by those who love to ride the trends and will be dispensed of as soon as something better (or "cooler") comes along. Until then, we'll have to suffer all of these supposed professionals in the media referring to "tweeting" at every opportunity to show that they are somehow 'relevant'.
 
easttxtv said:
CNN is always referencing Twitter (as well as the other social networkers) during newscasts...
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MSNBC's "1600 Pennsylvania Avenue" even devotes a segment to the craze at the end of every show: "Twitter Time"!
 
Our station started using twitter recently. Two other stations in town are doing the same thing. And we all interact through facebook. So far the viewers dig it. They don't necessarily interact for breaking news. They just like commenting on whatever we're doing.

In my opinion, with twitter we've reached unprecedented levels of narcissism. I really don't care what everyone is doing at any point in the day.
 
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