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Israel Uses Twitter for a Media/Citizens’ Conference

January 1, 2009 – 11:40 am

Another interesting new media story from the Courier-Mail’s David Earley, who writes:
“THE Israeli government escalated its PR war this morning when it held a world first “Citizens’ Press Conference” about the Gaza incursion, inviting the world to ask questions on social networking site Twitter.
Even before its scheduled start time questions were being asked of the [...]

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Mainstream Media Came to the Party – Lateish

December 29, 2008 – 3:45 pm

On December 19 near Kings Cross in Sydney a man was detained and threatened with arrest under the Terrorism Act.
How do we know? Not thanks to the mainstream media, but because of Twitter and the blogosphere, including young media workers who are below the radar of most mainstream journalists.
The person who was threatened, new-media-man-about-the-web Nick [...]

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