We have upgraded the search terms on the home page, that find tweets form the public about news.
 
If you spend some time on the home page you will get a feel for how the two news approaches differ.  The media stream, which combines many of the major news media into one stream, is factual, but not enough activity; its a little boring.  Tweets from the public, in the right hand column, are less focused but its more interesting - more frequent updates, more pictures, and some interesting comments.

We would like a method to do more 'Curation' on the public's tweets, to reduce the off-topic tweets.  We are seeking a Curation partner that has some experience in this area.   And on the left column, for the major news media sources, we would to also do some curation to remove duplicate entries - for when two different news organizations report the same news item (and in the same way).

Please Contact Us if you can help us Curate the results.

Twitter has started a new, real-time late-breaking news service called @EventParrot.

@EventParrot uses direct messages (which are personalized messages direct to a user) to send late-breaking news alerts.  Twitter itself, overall, is a news service -  but there is a great volume of messages.  @EventParrot is a form of 'Curation' where only the most important news is sent out.

@EventParrot is part of a series of new kinds of 'notification' services by Twitter.  It would seem that we can expect more of these kind of services in the future.  Curation in general is an important way to add value, and will be increasingly important in any medium when there is a lot of volume.

These new kinds of notification services are a great way to draw new users to Twitter, and to prod the least-active users of Twitter to use it more often.

Any new news-notification service is of interest to us at LateBreakingNews.com  We will be following @EventParrot and similar services closely.  We are also very interested to see how the AP Newswire will respond in general to the speed of Twitter, and to curated services like @EventParrot in particular. 

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