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I just Re-Tweeted Sky News. When’s the story go up? ;-)

I just Re-Tweeted Sky News. When’s the story go up? ;-)

By on March 6, 2009 in News

The always-connected AndrewGrill caught news that there’s apparently been an Earthquake in Melbourne, Australia. 5.1 apparently. A few other people came through my Twitter with similar news. So I re-tweeted it to the Sky News online producer (or Twitter Correspondent), Ruth Barnett thus: Andrew followed up with another also addressing Ruth: I wonder who was [...]

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Welcome Ruth Barnett, the Sky News Twitter correspondent

By on March 5, 2009 in News

Check out Mike Butcher’s post over at TechCrunch UK. Fascinating. Sky News have appointed a Twitter correspondent to hunt for news stories across the service — and, I assume, across other mediums such as Facebook and so on. The correspondent is named Ruth Barnett. I trust she is equipped with a shit-hot array of 30″ [...]

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Twitter beats Reuters, AP, CNN and Sky News on Turkish Jet crash

By on February 25, 2009 in News

MIR reader Ashley Bolser sent me over this story he was reading at CNN. It describes how Twitter… “stole a march on traditional media when it was the first outlet to publish dramatic pictures of the Turkish Airlines crash” The report continues: Moments after the plane crashed at Amsterdam’s Schipol airport on Wednesday morning the [...]

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