Comments on: BBC mulls Twitter account http://14sandwiches.com/2009/02/25/bbc-mulls-twitter-account/ A technology-media-music party for your brain Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:03:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: jaampool http://14sandwiches.com/2009/02/25/bbc-mulls-twitter-account/comment-page-1/#comment-6080 jaampool Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:05:51 +0000 http://14sandwiches.com/?p=591#comment-6080 I love to put comments here it helps me a lot. I love to put comments here it helps me a lot.

]]> By: Tom http://14sandwiches.com/2009/02/25/bbc-mulls-twitter-account/comment-page-1/#comment-5329 Tom Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:09:40 +0000 http://14sandwiches.com/?p=591#comment-5329 World's their oyster... give it to the Director General? Feed random twitters from presenters live and concurrent with shows on radio and TV, make major announcements, be a channel of response to when the BBC becomes the news.<br><br>Make it relevant, useful, real time. run by a mix of feeds and hoomans. I'm sure they could make it an awesome Twitterer to folllow. 140 characters a time.<br><br>For posterity, here's @bbc with just 43 followers (Jan 29 2009) <br><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/blokes_pix/3236701435/" rel="nofollow">http://www.flickr.com/photos/blokes_pix/3236701...</a><br><br>Wonder if they can make it massive.<br>Tom World's their oyster… give it to the Director General? Feed random twitters from presenters live and concurrent with shows on radio and TV, make major announcements, be a channel of response to when the BBC becomes the news.

Make it relevant, useful, real time. run by a mix of feeds and hoomans. I'm sure they could make it an awesome Twitterer to folllow. 140 characters a time.

For posterity, here's @bbc with just 43 followers (Jan 29 2009)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/blokes_pix/3236701...

Wonder if they can make it massive.
Tom

]]> By: MartinSFP http://14sandwiches.com/2009/02/25/bbc-mulls-twitter-account/comment-page-1/#comment-5321 MartinSFP Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:47:57 +0000 http://14sandwiches.com/?p=591#comment-5321 I'm not talking about Twitter being used as a BBC News service (although a BBC Breaking News feed like the ticker on the BBC News site might be useful in additio0n to their normal news feed). No, I mean it should be used as a place to go for an official statement from the BBC about news relating to them. <br><br>Imagine the next Ross/Brand-style controversy. Even if the initial tweet was just "DG Mark Thompson is to make a statement at 2pm" it would be a worth doing as people would know something was being done and they were getting it straight from the horse's mouth. I'm not talking about Twitter being used as a BBC News service (although a BBC Breaking News feed like the ticker on the BBC News site might be useful in additio0n to their normal news feed). No, I mean it should be used as a place to go for an official statement from the BBC about news relating to them.

Imagine the next Ross/Brand-style controversy. Even if the initial tweet was just “DG Mark Thompson is to make a statement at 2pm” it would be a worth doing as people would know something was being done and they were getting it straight from the horse's mouth.

]]> By: julianlstar http://14sandwiches.com/2009/02/25/bbc-mulls-twitter-account/comment-page-1/#comment-5306 julianlstar Thu, 26 Feb 2009 05:51:09 +0000 http://14sandwiches.com/?p=591#comment-5306 They won't because they can't. Unlike the many people who follow and retweet breaking Twitternews, news corps. have to check their facts. Take the other crash today 25/2/09 Twitter was all a buzz with a crash at Denver Centennial Airport without anybody actually seeing the crash. It transpired 20 minutes later (a long time in Twitterland) that a light aircraft's landing gear had collapsed and no-one was seriously hurt. If you were a broadcaster you would of been hung, drawn and quartered, and if it was the BBC a week of analysis of why the BBC was hung, drawn and quartered. They won't because they can't. Unlike the many people who follow and retweet breaking Twitternews, news corps. have to check their facts. Take the other crash today 25/2/09 Twitter was all a buzz with a crash at Denver Centennial Airport without anybody actually seeing the crash. It transpired 20 minutes later (a long time in Twitterland) that a light aircraft's landing gear had collapsed and no-one was seriously hurt. If you were a broadcaster you would of been hung, drawn and quartered, and if it was the BBC a week of analysis of why the BBC was hung, drawn and quartered.

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