ABC News Using Twitter as a Discussion Platform

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009 at 8:40 am

This is a rather significant development on mainstream journalism. ABC News has created a new half-hour digital program called “NightTline” which allows viewers to discuss and debate the news of the day through Twitter. While other news sources have embraced Twitter as a news dissemination network, its good to see how networks are encouraging the use of Twitter as a discussion platform.

New, unique visualization of Twitter using Pixel touch screen technology will be employed for the first time on the site. The first episode of “NightTline” will be broadcast on Wednesday, May 13th at 12:30 p.m. ET. Episodes will take on the program’s popular “Face-Off” model, a live debate on issues being discussed on the national stage, which “Nightline” has made successful in its recent on air programming. (link)

An example of how Twitter was used can be seen by checking out Nightline’s Twitter page.

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