NPR, HBO, Team Coco, MTV win Webby Awards
The 15th annual Webby Award winners were announced today, and NPR came away with the top news site trophy. HBO’s Boardwalk Empire interactive won in the television category (with Hulu as the People’s choice) and Conan O’Brien’s Team Coco site clinched as the top celebrity/fan site. MTV’s A Thin Line — a campaign to “stop [...]
How people watched the Royal Wedding on NBC
NBC News has put together an infographic of how people watched the Royal Wedding across NBC News, from TV to Twitter, Facebook to GetGlue, and its Royal Wedding iPad app. Click through below to see the full graphic…
Twitter hits record on Osama bin Laden story
Twitter spiked with 5,106 tweets per second at 11 p.m. ET last night, decreasing slightly to 5,008 tweets when Obama finished up his live statement, according to Twitter. That’s not a record — the number to beat was 6,939 tweets per second just after midnight on New Year’s Eve in Japan. (For context, the Super [...]
Tweet briefs: Tweetdeck, Osama, Apple, The Stream
It’s been a very busy news day for everyone… – Twitter buys Tweetdeck for as much as $50 million, reports TechCrunch – New York, LA stations cover local angles of bin Laden’s death – Time Inc. agrees to terms with Apple on magazine iPad subscriptions – Al Jazeera’s social show “The Stream” debuts on TV
Best social media moments of Osama bin Laden’s death
When the President of the United States unexpectedly asks for time across the networks late on a Sunday night, you know it’s going to be big. And as the live statement was repeatedly delayed, that left everyone clamoring on Twitter while news organizations hit the phones. Before long, the news was out before the President approached the microphone.
The first unconfirmed report of the news on Twitter — as far as we can tell — came from Keith Urbahn, whose profile explains he’s the former chief of staff for Donald Rumsfeld.
Soon thereafter, I saw a tweet from CBS News Producer Jill Jackson, which attributed the news to a congressional aide. But CBSNews.com and its Twitter accounts kept silent. About 10 minutes later, Fox News tweeted that it confirmed the news followed by the NY Times a minute later. And from that moment, the news was everywhere.
For a good sense of how the story developed from there, look at BreakingNews.com, (where I work). We aggregated updates, tweets, photos and YouTube clips in near real-time. (To learn more about BreakingNews.com, Nieman Lab posted this overview.)
As you might imagine, Twitter set a record in tweets per second. (Our story here.)
The New York Observer tweeted this photo, explaining, “Look at Obama’s face when Seth Meyers made the joke about Bin Laden last night. Meme-creators, go to town.”
If you have any doubts about the power of social media and mobile devices, go no further than the Phillies-Mets game, where fans discovered the news on their phones. And then as more and more read the news, chants of “U-S-A” broke out across the crowd.
But perhaps the most fascinating social media development comes from Sohaib Athar (@reallyvirtual), who describes himself as “an IT consultant taking a break from the rat-race by hiding in the mountains with his laptops.” He’s “hiding” in Abbottabad, Pakistan — the same community where Osama bin Laden was killed — and he unknowingly tweeted about the attack. Click through to see his tweets, assembled on Storify…
HBO Go debuts on iPad, iPhone, but not for all
HBO Go has hit the Apple app store, bringing full streaming of its shows and movies on iPhones and iPads — but as you might imagine, there are a couple catches. First of all, you have to not only subscribe to HBO, but to a participating cable or satellite TV service, as well. And that [...]
White House correspondents dinner a social media hit
As of Sunday night, C-SPAN’s video of the White House correspondents dinner has already racked up over 1.3 million views. With a stoic Donald Trump in attendance, it was made for social media (here are all the tweets). Here’s the video raw clip with Obama’s remarks: “You, Mr. Trump, recognized that the real problem was [...]
NFL iPad app stumbles during the draft
The latest social TV app we’ve tested is the free NFL ’11 iPad app (iTunes), which arrived just in time for the draft. The app offered live NFL Network coverage as well as a countdown for each pick, a running list of picks, background stats on the players, news from your favorite teams and the [...]
