“Get your Twit on!”
So says one ad for a Twitter application for the iPhone. Our old friend Twitter is slowly taking over the world so it's time to embrace it. Breaking Tweets has chosen to do just this by turning Twitter into a source of synthesized news…in 140 characters or less. 
Breaking Tweets is a website that approaches Twitter as a viable source of information on current events from a personalized level. The editors of the site sift through the seemingly endless “Twitter universe” to find tweets relevant to current news stories. They even include pictures from stories utilizing the TwitPics application. They then assemble it to resemble your typical journalistic format. 
With the ability for individuals to Twitter using their cellular phones, eye witness reporting is limitless and Breaking Tweets is on the cutting edge by utilizing this. As the staff puts it, Breaking Tweets is “hyperlocal gone global.
With this global idea in mind, Breaking Tweets even includes a handy global map (courtesy of Google Maps) that allows visitors to click locations and see stories relevant to a certain area as its reported by Twitter. Half of their visitors to Breaking Tweets are from overseas. 
John Kristoff, a contributing editor for Breaking Tweets and a good friend of mine, is a Journalism graduate student at DePaul University. His view on the Twitter-craze is this:
“If it was going to disappear, it would have already done so.”
Tweet on that! Twitter is here to stay...until the next big thing comes along. Follow Breaking Tweets on Twitter @breakingtweets.
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2 comments:
Great article. You captured the essence of our site quite well. Thanks for writing about us.
Btw, love the headline.
Craig
Founder of breakingtweets.com
Nice article, but you've got to stop writing about Twitter. It's been around for two years. Just because you, along with everyone in the MSM, are late to the party doesn't mean that Twitter is the next big thing. It could be, don't get me wrong, but hyperbolic statements like "The Death of Traditional Media is Announced With a Tweet" are gross oversimplifications of far more complex issues regarding the way that consumers digest and distribute media.
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