Integrating online will be one of the topics we discuss at PubCampWest Aug. 19-21 in Los Angeles. This post from Nieman Lab looks at the challenges faced by NPR’s Andy Carvin (right) when it comes to managing information coming to him from
Twitter.
“During the Mumbai terror attacks of 2008, Carvin noted, a rumor spread on Twitter that terrorists were using social media to coordinate their actions — and there was a rumor on top of that that the Indian government had told its citizens to refrain Twitter. ‘So there was a period of several hours,’ Carvin noted, ‘where some of the best eyewitnesses got skittish.’ From what we can tell, he said, the rumor likely started on TV, and found its way to Twitter. ‘But in situations like that,’ Carvin said, ‘I’d want to be able to know, in real time, ‘Who started this?’’”
