The Twitter Media Blog

Tracking cool, meaningful uses of Twitter in TV, music, sports, government, journalism and more

#ATL24: CNN live-tweets a feature story

Monday, September 9, 2013 | By Andrew Fitzgerald (@magicandrew), Interim Head of News & Journalism Partnerships [22:04 UTC]
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Why 30 CNN journalists live-tweeted behind the scenes at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport.Read more…

#TweetDeckTips: Q&A with Zach Seward

Friday, September 6, 2013 | By Erica Anderson (@EricaAmerica) [18:58 UTC]
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Meet Quartz Senior Editor Zach Seward and learn how he uses TweetDeck.Read more…

#MTVHottest generates 166 million Tweets with a single hashtag

Wednesday, September 4, 2013 | By Dan Biddle (@DanBiddle), Broadcast Partnerships Twitter UK [00:01 UTC]
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Find out how MTV UK came up with this summer’s hottest hashtag.Read more…

Reporting on Dr. King's dream in 2013

Thursday, August 29, 2013 | By Simon Rogers (@smfrogers), Data Editor [21:58 UTC]
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Presidents, civil rights leaders and citizens joined together today to mark the 50th anniversary of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I have a dream” speech at the 1963 March on Washington. See how news organizations told that story on Twitter.Read more…

The @49ers get twice the takeover

Thursday, August 29, 2013 | By Lauren Fraser (@lfraser), Sports Partnerships [17:08 UTC]
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What happened when a supermodel and pro basketball player took over the @49ers Twitter account.Read more…

Pretty Little Tweeters: How the finale beat the records

Wednesday, August 28, 2013 | By Liz Myers (@thisbeliz), TV Partnerships [23:32 UTC]
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How Pretty Little Liars earned record engagement during its summer finale.Read more…

The New York Times tests a new Tweet feature

Tuesday, August 27, 2013 | By Simon Rogers (@smfrogers), Data Editor [18:52 UTC]
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The New York Times experiments with making it easy to tweet sentences within a story.Read more…

Tweeting the VMAs: The techniques that worked

Monday, August 26, 2013 | By Simon Rogers (@smfrogers), Data Editor [23:19 UTC]
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It was the TV and music event of last night, with 90% of the conversation about TV on Twitter. What did broadcasters, reporters and the stars themselves do that was new this year?Read more…

A premiere to remember

Friday, August 23, 2013 | By Sunil Singhvi (@illsun), Entertainment Partnerships, Twitter UK [16:57 UTC]
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#1DMoviePremiereRead more…

Jesse Pinkman phones a friend

Thursday, August 22, 2013 | By Simon Rogers (@smfrogers), Data editor [05:42 UTC]
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Breaking Bad’s Aaron Paul calls the first 10 people to respond to him on Twitter.Read more…
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