Monday, September 12th, 2011
‘Bad taste’, ‘goulish’ and ‘wrong, wrong, wrong’ – just a few of the phrases used to describe The Guardian’s reporting of 9/11 in its @911tenyearsago Twitter account.
The idea was to live-tweet the 9/11 attacks as if they were happening in real time.
On face value, @911tenyearsago provided an interesting exploration of ...
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Monday, June 6th, 2011
Given my line of work, it will hardly come as a surprise that I’m absolutely obsessed with how we consume our news. I’ll take it however it comes, whether it’s via print, digital or social media. My daily diet kicks off within minutes of my alarm with a quick check ...
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Monday, March 7th, 2011
It was only two years ago when David Cameron said he wasn’t on Twitter because he thought too many tweets “might make a twat”. How things have changed. Westminster has moved with the times and embraced a variety of social media platforms, with Number 10 now having its own pages ...
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Wednesday, August 18th, 2010
Day in, day out, high profile tweeters continue to grab headlines, and the latest is president of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez. In terms of international politics, he certainly doesn't march to the same beat as the majority of his counterparts. In fact, it's fair to say that his controversial politics command ...
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Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
Facebook is officially the most used website in the world. 500 million of us are logging on and it costs us absolutely zilch. There's been press coverage aplenty promising that we'll never have to pay to use the site. That's nothing new, but what if I told you that Facebook ...
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