Chapter 12
Twitter and the Evolving Media Landscape
In This Chapter
Discovering news events first announced on Twitter
Making Twitter your personal newspaper
Growing business with news from Twitter
You may have first been turned onto Twitter by hearing about it in the mainstream media. News outlets such as CNN (@CNN, @cnnbrk) and popular shows such as Ellen, The View, and Oprah have all begun to incorporate Twitter and the global, real-time conversations it fosters into their onscreen time.
Twitter is cropping up in print media, too. Celebrities are adopting it as a way to beat the paparazzi at their own game and give their fans a more direct voice to listen to. Musicians are tweeting to bypass regular radio and sell more music, as well as interact with more fans. Twitter has even made it into nontechnical print publications such as The New York Times.
And even before its exposure on mainstream media, Twitter had already become a natural outlet for the phenomenon known as citizen journalism. Thanks to service technologies like mobile phones and portable video cameras, real people can report on real events as they’re unfolding.
In this chapter, we dive into all this further.
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