New York Times Has More Twitter Followers than Print Readers. The New York Times now has more Twitter followers than print circulation.
Could a future of so long print and hello headlines in 140 characters or less be far away? The New York Times tops the list of the top 25 newspapers on Twitter with more than 2.6 million followers. Quel est l'avenir de Twitter ? Infographie : vitesse de l'information. Are sensational topics the only way for journalism to face Twitter’s success?
By Samuel Degremont on 27th July 2009 • The Cast Blog Last month, a post by Jeff Jarvis caught my eye. Entitled “The King of Twitter”, the article wonders about the role played by TV channels in the creation and distribution of information, more particularly in light of Mickael Jackson’s death and the latest events in Iran. The first above-mentioned event increased so considerably the number of exchanges on Twitter that servers were saturated (25% of the total number of “twits” on the night of M.Jackson’s death and before Twitter’s crash), due to the spreading of the information published by a media website (TMZ.com).
The second event – contested elections in Iran on Twitter – illustrated the gap that sometimes exists between the citizens’ expectations and the information provided by news TV channels.