Presentation given at the International Festival of Journalism in Perugia 2014. The masterclass looks at techniques for news gathering and curating content from Twitter.

1. Masterclass: Twitter for News
@joannauk - @liviacolare - @smfrogers
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2. 240m+ users globally

3. 78% access Twitter on mobile

4. 2 in 3 world leaders are on Twitter

6. Discovery

7. Glasgow helicopter crash
29 Nov 2013

8. @TwitterUK
London helicopter crash
16 Jan 2013
Learning from breaking news

9. @TwitterUK
London helicopter crash
16 Jan 2013
10:25 PM

11. tweetdeck.com

12. London helicopter crash
16 Jan 2013

17. @TwitterUK
London helicopter crash
16 Jan 2013
10:25 PM

18. @TwitterUK
London helicopter crash
16 Jan 2013
“shit OR fuck OR fucking”
“(shit OR fuck OR fucking)
AND (collapse OR collapsed OR
collapsing OR explosion OR dead
OR injured OR bomb OR gun
OR police)”
Exclude: "fuck the police" OR
"fuck da police" OR "walking dead"
OR "walkin dead" OR “I’m dead”
Exclude: retweets
Only show tweets with
more than 15 retweets

19. http://twitter.com/search

20. Search operators

21. Advanced search

22. @TwitterUK
London helicopter crash
16 Jan 2013
10:29 PM

23. “Clyde OR Gorbals OR Enoch OR Stockwell OR
Bridgegate OR Howard OR Saltmarket OR
geo:55.854456,-4.250232 within:1km”

25. @TwitterUK
London helicopter crash
16 Jan 2013
10:30 PM

26. London helicopter crash
16 Jan 2013

27. London helicopter crash
16 Jan 2013

28. @TwitterUK
London helicopter crash
16 Jan 2013
10:33 PM

30. Curation

31. http://twitter.com/settings/widgets

32. TextText
Collection Widget (custom timeline)

35. TextText
Search Widget

36. Search Widget
“list:journalismfest/ifj14-speakers AND #ifj14”
Only show me tweets from members of the
IJF14 speakers list if they use the hashtag #ifj14

37. Search operators!

38. Search Widget in Tweetdeck

39. List Widget

40. Favourites Widget

41. Timeline Widget

42. Verification

49. http://www.wolframalpha.com

51. @TwitterData

52. #SecretLifeofCats
support.twitter.com/forms

53. media.twitter.com

54. Thank you! Grazie!
@joannauk - @liviacolare - @smfrogers
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