Mining Twitter – Citizen Journalism in a New Form
by Rob Paterson
How do you cover your community with no or little money? At Planet Money they ask for help and they “listen” to Twitter.
Here are a couples of examples that Laura used to show how you can do this
The “Clown” Tweets Us – PM has a deep and keen Twitter fan club – I call it the PM Tribe – So here a PM Twitter Fan Tweets the Show – The Listening part of Twitter.
@planetmoney #economy I am Children’s entertainer #clown. Work was way dwn jan-april. (-%87 for me.) now better, but #swineflu panic a prob
PM calls her and uses her story in part of their podcast. The Deepening Phase
Morning Edition like the story and bump it up and put in on the main show – The harvest phase
People ask all the time – “How do we bring the voice of the citizen into the station – well this is one way that you can do this.
By the way – for us PM Twitter fans/Tribe the pay off is when our bit goes on the show. Like Golf, the tiny chance that it might is the massive incentive.
The result is that you not only deepen the engagement that you have with your community, but you get ahead of the story. You get the story before it is a story. You have an intelligence system like no other.
Here is another of these Pyramids or ladders:
Terri Weiss tweets her employer’s demise – First, they stop the coffe:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2009/01/first_they_stop_the_coffee.html
Terri Weiss tells her story on podcast
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2009/01/hear_can_i_borrow_20.html
Terri Weiss, with a little more production, on Morning Edition
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99790809
