Twitter News Media

October 11th, 2007 | Media, Online, Social Networking

Twitter logo Something I didn’t mention in the previous post is that Twitter can also be utilised as an advanced, and free, mobile news updating service.

The other day I discovered news feeds on Twitter. I started following the New York Times world news feed with mobile phone message updates. These consist of a headline and a URL link to the full story.

For anyone on an internet-enabled phone, this is a quick and easy way to get news updates. My mobile phone isn’t internet-enabled, so just getting the headlines wasn’t entirely useful, and the SMS messages filled the inbox within a few hours.

For the media outlet, the cost of putting headline updates on Twitter is minimal if done manually, none if the process is automated.

For the consumer there is no cost for receiving, or ‘following‘, the updates via Twitter.

They get a headline delivered. If they like it, they follow the link to your site.

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