Uncategorized - by Patrick Thornton on Thursday, May 29, 2008 15:05 - 0 Comments

Beat Blogging Beats Regular Media with Group Twitter Account

brentpic1-2.jpgHarrisonburg is a small Virginia city with a population of less than 50,000. The town wasn’t exactly Happenstance until Brent Finnegan decided to liven things up by supplementing his alternative newsblog, Hburgnews.com, with a communal Twitter account. He called on his readers to text in news and soon he and his cronies outpaced the regular news media covering breaking news. This is an interview with Finnegan about his Twitter project.

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