US: Twittering at a funeral, is it right?
Posted by Lauren Drablier on September 12, 2008 at 2:56 PM
Reporter, Berny Morson, from the Rocky Mountain News used Twitter to post a live blog on the newspaper's website at the funeral of Marten Kudlis, a three-year-old boy killed in an ice-cream store last week.
Twitter is a service that allows for the real-time exchange of quick, short messages. Some reporters use the service to send updates to their websites to offer readers blurbs about an event.
In this case, the media blasted the RMN for covering the funeral with Twitter and has called the decision "inappropriate," "misguided" and "tasteless." Questions have been raised before about when it is appropriate to use Twitter and whether in some cases it is absolutely necessary.
Sources: Poynter, Colorado Independent, The Standard, journalism.co.uk
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Twitter is a service that allows for the real-time exchange of quick, short messages. Some reporters use the service to send updates to their websites to offer readers blurbs about an event.In this case, the media blasted the RMN for covering the funeral with Twitter and has called the decision "inappropriate," "misguided" and "tasteless." Questions have been raised before about when it is appropriate to use Twitter and whether in some cases it is absolutely necessary.
Sources: Poynter, Colorado Independent, The Standard, journalism.co.uk
See Also:
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Interview: Twitsms exploits gap in the market after Twitter axe SMS
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