UK: Local paper uses Twitter to cover football match
Posted by Kelley Vendeland on April 29, 2008 at 9:21 AM
Twitter, which Jeff Jarvis calls the "next evolutionary step in blogging," has been put to good use for a variety of different types of reporting. Add sports coverage to the list, thanks to an initiative from local UK newspaper The Evening Leader.The Leader used Twitter to provide live coverage of Wrexham FC's April 26 home match against Accrington Stanley, reports Journalism.co.uk. The tweets, texted every few minutes by deputy editor Martin Wright, appeared both on a widget on the Leader website and on the paper's Wrexham Twitter account.
"I go to as many Wrexham home games as I can, but inevitably I end up missing some," Wright said. "When I'm at work this can be a bit of a problem because I want to know the score and what's happening all the time - not just when the final whistle goes."
Source: Journalism.co.uk through IFRA Executive News Service
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