The following facts about micro-blogging come from Mindy McAdams, her site, Teaching Online Journalism, is dedicated to student communicators. The article can be found at http://mindymcadams.com/tojou/2008/twitter-mumbai-and-10-facts-about-journalism-now/.
10 Facts About Micro-Blogging
1.Breaking news will be online before it’s on television.
2.Breaking news — especially disasters and attacks in the middle of a city — will be covered first by non-journalists.
3.The non-journalists will continue providing new information even after the trained journalists arrive on the scene.
4.Cell phones will be the primary reporting tool at first, and possibly for hours.
5.Cell phones that can use a wireless Internet connection in addition to a cellular phone network are a more versatile reporting tool than a phone alone.
6.Still photos, transmitted by citizens on the ground, will tell more than most videos.
7.The right video will get so many views, your servers might crash (I’m not aware of this happening with any videos from Mumbai).
8.Live streaming video becomes a user magnet during a crisis. (CNN.com Live: 1.4 million views as of 11:30 a.m. EST today, according to Beet.tv.)
9.Your print reporters need to know how to dictate over the phone. If they can get a line to the newsroom, it might be necessary.
10.Your Web team must be prepared for this kind of crisis reporting.
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