Ryan Sholin

Reporting with Twitter: Orange County is on fire

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Ryan Sholin
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The Orange County Register is aggregating tweets about fires in the area right now.

This is advanced reporting with Twitter, jumping way ahead from using it as a tool to push out headlines, and serving a very different information need than the promotional / community building of a Colonel Tribune, as much as I admire that effort.

via @ksablan

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One response to “Reporting with Twitter: Orange County is on fire”

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    Kevin Sablan

    Thank you for the mention. oregonlive.com deserves some credit. Their “Portland Twitters” page served as an inspiration for what we did.
    http://www.oregonlive.com/special/index.ssf/2008/10/twitter.html