How the Bird is Breaking the News: The Information Age of Twitter

How the Bird is Breaking the News: The Information the Age of Twitter – From being used as a critical tool to forward the Arab Spring revolution to serving as the first place people worldwide learned of Osama bin Laden’s death, the social networking services that allows anyone and everyone to disseminate news in 140 characters or less has revolutionized the way we consume and propagate information. Is the age of Citizen Journalism spelling the end of Legacy Journalism? This presentation explores the impact of Twitter on journalism and projects where news gathering and sharing just nine years after the birth of the Bird.  Ben Speggen, M.A.