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We used to use radio for this …

The Olympic Torch carried through San Francisco, reported minute by minute, from the scene:

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If you still don’t understand the value of Twitter, click the image to see the story.

(Via Team Tibet, on Twitter.)

This entry was posted on Wednesday, April 9, 2008, at 8:05 pm and is filed under reporting, online, news. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

4 responses to “We used to use radio for this …”

  1. albert writes:

    really really cool.

    what an amazing way of mobilizing people and movements in real time

    April 9, 2008 at 11:00 pm
  2. Ryan Gladstone writes:

    I can imagine a few situations were play-by-play Twitter reporting might hold my attention, but the majority of what I’ve seen is much more ‘look what I can do!’ than actually interesting or insightful.

    April 9, 2008 at 11:19 pm
  3. Mindy writes:

    @Ryan - What I thought was especially interesting in this case was that the torch was on the move. So there was a special interest in updating its whereabouts minute by minute. Other than sending phone reports, that would be hard to do with other tools.

    April 10, 2008 at 7:56 am
  4. Fiona writes:

    You can do this as well with live radio from a mobile or satellite phone, as long a you either:
    a) have a good vantage point over a site, or b) can be mobile alongside your target. For the minute by minute account radio’s emotional range and continuity of description are the go - as long as the commentator doesn’t just talk for the sake of filling airtime.

    April 21, 2008 at 10:30 am

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