Monitoring Different Types of Media Outlets to Get the Full Scoop on a Issue

AJ Herrmann — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:45:00 +0000

We’re still following what’s happening with FISA, and we saw some interesting trends today. Look at the difference in coverage of FISA on different mediums.

Here’s at look at the number of posts about FISA on Twitter over the last two weeks.

You can see that there was more chatter about FISA on Twitter yesterday than at any point over the last two weeks. That’s a different story than what you see when looking at coverage from mainstream news sources and blogs.

Here are the stories about FISA picked up by Google News over the last two weeks:

And here are the blog posts about FISA picked up by Technorati over the same period:

Using Twitter to Track the Grassroots Reaction to Barack Obama’s Stance on FISA

AJ Herrmann — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:00:01 +0000

Sometimes monitoring blogs and mainstream news sources just isn’t enough. This can become very apparent when you’re trying to manage your company’s brand or image while an issue is exploding in your lap.

One example of this is the uproar that happened when Senator Obama decided to support the compromise bill on FISA immunity recently passed by the House. These tweets were posted on Twitter just as the group Senator Obama Please Vote NO on Telecom Immunity — Get FISA Right, was forming on my.barackobama.com to protest Obama’s stance on FISA.

The anger that caused people to post these tweets has helped the anti-FISA group become the singe largest in Obama’s own online community: a fact that has received significant media coverage from mainstream sources.

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Monitoring Different Types of Media Outlets to Get the Full Scoop on a Issue

Using Twitter to Track the Grassroots Reaction to Barack Obama’s Stance on FISA