{"id":2230,"date":"2009-05-21T08:35:34","date_gmt":"2009-05-21T08:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/21\/one-in-ten-tweets-during-saturday-mentioned-eurovision-and-some-media140-thoughts\/"},"modified":"2023-02-24T11:41:56","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T11:41:56","slug":"one-in-ten-tweets-during-saturday-mentioned-eurovision-and-some-media140-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/05\/one-in-ten-tweets-during-saturday-mentioned-eurovision-and-some-media140-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"One In Ten Tweets during Saturday Mentioned Eurovision (and some #media140 Thoughts)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was the first <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/04\/23\/media140-the-real-time-news-conference\/\">#media140<\/a> conference in London, talking about the use of Twitter and over instant short form methods of communication in journalism. I had hoped to get down to it, but it was so close to getting back from the Eurovision Song Contest (Moscow) that I just kept half an eye on it.<\/p>\n<p>Typical of the medium, I started getting pings on Twitter that I was getting mentioned from the panel on \u201cThe 140 Character Story\u2026\u201d So I pinged back to ask what was being said (which is a horrible Web 2.0 feedback loop, I know);<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/Documentally\">Documentally<\/a>: you were mentioned with love earlier for your amazing Eurovision coverage;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/darrenwaters\">darrenwaters<\/a>: [Darren was on the panel, he said] that it rocked;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/billt\">billt<\/a> I said it was great but I preferred it without listening to the songs!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There is no doubt in my mind that Twitter was one of the places to be during Eurovision. While I was busy working during the event, Nick Burcher had half an eye on the Twitter statistics and came up with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nickburcher.com\/2009\/05\/eurovision-and-twitter-eurovision.html\">this delightful fact-let:<\/a> 9.95% of every twitter during the time of the contest contained the word \u201cEurovision\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>One in ten twitters were about the Eurovision Song Contest!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And in all of that, I have to thank everyone that labelled me as one of the \u201c<em>goto people<\/em>\u201d on Twitter for Eurovision. I could see all the RT\u2019s of my commentary being passed around, I could see the discussions and questions coming at me, which is almost like instant feedback \u2013 something that Terry Wogan never had, and an impromptu community had sprung up.<\/p>\n<p>Eurovision was set up back in the 50\u2019s to push new technology and ideas to broadcasters \u2013 it looks like it continues to do so in the 21st century?<\/p>\n<p>And it leaves another problem for the broadcaster. How do you pitch your Eurovision coverage next year when you have this on the sidelines waving its banner? Adam Tinworth, who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onemanandhisblog.com\/archives\/2009\/05\/a_new_way_to_follow_the_eurovision.html\">gave his blog readers a heads up regarding my coverage<\/a> summed it up nicely:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Around an event like the Eurovision, the main broadcast is in real danger of becoming just a social object that people interact about elsewhere. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Discuss!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was the first #media140 conference in London, talking about the use of Twitter and over instant short form methods of communication in journalism. I had hoped to get down to it, but it was so close to getting back from the Eurovision Song Contest (Moscow) that I just kept half an eye on it. Typical of the medium, I started getting pings on Twitter that I was getting mentioned from the panel on \u201cThe 140 Character Story\u2026\u201d So I pinged back to ask what was being said (which is a horrible Web 2.0 feedback loop, I know); Documentally: you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[595,22,392,26,685],"tags":[286,371,1102,389,87],"class_list":["post-2230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-595","category-conferences","category-eurovision-multimedia","category-multimedia","category-twitter-web-20","tag-commentary","tag-eurovision-song-contest","tag-social-object","tag-terry-wogan","tag-twitter","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-zY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62303,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230\/revisions\/62303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}