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Social analysis of Tuesday’s Republican Debate on CNN
Bluefin Labs has again provided us with some great data on last night’s GOP debate on CNN. The debate accepted questions from audience members as well as questions submitted via Twitter, which were displayed on-air leading into each commercial. Bluefin Labs says the Twitter integration may have helped drive up total comments (second highest number of comments since the debate on September 7)….
CNN launches a new, more social iReport
In August, CNN celebrated iReport’s 5th anniversary and announced a redesign of the site was in the works. The redesign is here with the goal to create the largest “social network for news,” according to Lila King, Participation Director at CNN who heads up iReport.
Both individual iReporters profile pages and group pages have gotten major updates, making them easier to navigate the different pieces of content (photos, videos, etc) that a user has contributed to an “assignment.”
CNN acquires iPad magazine app Zite
CNN announced today it has acquired Zite, a personalized iPad magazine app, for an undisclosed sum. Similar to Flipboard, Zite starts with your Twitter account or Google Reader subscription — along with other customizations — to auto-populate an iPad experience that learns with your reading behavior. “Zite represents the next generation of content discovery and [...]
CNN announces revamp for iReport tool
In honor of the fifth anniversay of CNN iReport, the 24-hour cable news organization announced that they will be revamping the tool into a “social network for news”, according to Participation Director of CNN Digital, Lila King. “Instead a (network) built around your friends, it’s built around sources and topics you care about and trust,” [...]
CNN streams its air live online, mobile
CNN has rolled out a new video player this morning with the ability for authenticated TV viewers to watch the cable news network and HLN live online and on CNN’s iPad and iPhone apps. Here’s a screenshot of Anderson Cooper airing on an iPad: Before watching, users have to confirm they’re subscribers of a participating [...]
CNN weaves brand into Twitter debate conversation
Trendistic is a handy tool to measure the effectiveness of hashtags during broadcasts — or any trending topics on Twitter. During last night’s Republican debate on CNN, the hashtag #CNNdebate topped the trending topics list and peaked out at 1.38% of all tweets sent at 9 p.m. ET, according to Trendistic data: Searches for the [...]
Twitter giants talk tweets on Piers Morgan
As promised, Piers Morgan went “Twitter crazy” on Tuesday night. Twitter co-founders @jack and @biz were fixtures on the show, and Morgan spoke with Twitter heavyweights Martha Stewart, Cory Booker, Alyssa Milano, Nick Kristof (NYT) and Katherine Rosman (WSJ). “I get all my news via Twitter,” said CNN’s Morgan, who admitted that just months ago [...]
Piers Morgan to air live Twitter TV show Tuesday
Update: In addition to the guests mentioned below, CNN will also have Cory Booker and NYT’s Nick Kristof on the show. “Send your tweets during the show using the hashtags #Piers and #OnlyOnTwitter (to tell something that could have ONLY happened on Twitter),” explain the producers, who are calling it “the first fully-interactive cable news [...]
Gowalla hooks up with CNN’s iReport
Gowalla users will soon be able to upload stories from their app directly to CNN’s iReport. From CNN: Gowalla has added a new ’CNN iReport’ option to its ‘Highlights’ feature, which invites users to tell a story about places that are special to them. When Gowalla Passport Holders add a CNN iReport highlight, the message [...]
CNN wins award for World Cup Twitter interactive
CNN just won an innovation award from UK’s Royal Televison Society for its nifty Twitter interactive during the World Cup. Called CNN Twitter Buzz, it displayed images to represent World Cup topics, such as flags for teams. The more tweets about the topic at any given moment, the bigger the image: At its peak, the [...]
CNN reporter comes up with social workaround from Egypt
We’re monitoring the various broadcasts and social updates from Egypt, and CNN reporter Nic Robertson, who is in Alexandria, just shared how he’s Tweeting @NicRobertsonCNN. Egypt has been blocking the internet – sporadically it turns out. Nic tells CNN he is calling his wife and she is Tweeting for him. (And he’s updating constantly.) It’s [...]
CNN’s Piers Morgan puts Twitter to work for TV debut
With a taped interview with Oprah as the premiere episode of “Piers Morgan Tonight” on CNN on Monday night, the show’s host and staff gathered in the Presidential Suite of Mandarin Hotel in New York to watch the show’s debut. “God, hope the tape worked,” Piers Morgan tweeted 20 minutes to air. As the broadcast [...]
CNN unveils social-friendly iPad app
CNN rolled out its iPad app today, and it’s a dandy. I’ve given it a test drive and I strongly recommend it. It’s free, which is interesting because the CNN iPhone app was $1.99 – and was a top seller for a while, with about 2 million people in the U.S. downloading it since October [...]
Tweets running against Tea Party
CNN is running an interesting state-by-state analysis of Twitter. It broke down 21,000 tweets to find out the mood of people about the Tea Party. Notes CNN: “The analysis of relevant tweets reveals four common categories or threads of conversation: why people are voting for or against a person or policy, a general distaste for [...]
CNN reveals a badge for political iReporters
I’ll admit it – I’m surprised at how well virtual badges do when it comes to encouraging people to use a service. I gave up stickers when I was 10. (Maybe 12. 14, for sure.) But I’m no curmudgeon on the topic; whatever works, works. And so the badge system, made popular by Foursquare, has [...]
How and where people share news stories
A new study by CNN uncovers a few interesting tidbits on how news stories are shared. The major social networks (43%) have now bypassed email (30%) for the way that most stories are shared, according to the study. Ongoing stories (65%), breaking news (19%) and quirky or funny news (16%) are the most shared stories. [...]
CNN partners with Foursquare for ‘Heathy Eater’ badge
CNN has teamed up with Foursquare to promote a week-long series on healthy eating. Starting on Sunday, if you friend CNN on Foursquare and check in at one of 10,651 farmers markets across the globe, you’ll get a “Healthy Eater” badge. “We’ve seen time and time again how Foursquare can be used to drive people [...]
The entire universe must have shared this story
Seen in the Facebook module on CNN.com‘s home page this morning: Clearly a bug of some kind. Or a supernatural event, perhaps?
