But a tweet is not necessarily news. I’m not talking about tweets of physical discomfort (“I have such a hangover, really sick man”). Take a tweet about a crashed plane. You’ll have to verify that before you put it on the website of a newspaper or respectable blog. Even a photo is not convincing evidence, because who says the photo is recent or even of the alleged crash? You want to know more before you can really make a news story out of it: which airline, aircraft number or flight number is it?
But of course there is a story in such a tweet for a journalist. You can also wait until the topic becomes ‘trending’, then overseas data it is more likely that it will actually become a news story. However, it is more convenient to be able to filter news from tweets before it becomes ‘trending’ and thus have a scoop as a journalist. But how do you do that?
RTreporter filters the tweets
Since 2010, the Persinnovatie-fonds stimulates journalistic innovations. In the first year, RTreporter received a hundred thousand euros to develop the current version of the tool. In June 2013, RTreporter received another hundred thousand euros in project subsidy from the fund to develop the system of language technology (semantics), which can be used in RTreporter. It is a collaboration project between the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam ( Faculty of Exact Sciences ) and Ccinq (part of Ortec).
What does RTreporter do?
RTreporter helps a journalist (national, regional or local) find news. RTreporter looks at Twitter for messages that deviate. In any case, you can ignore 80% of the Twitter traffic, these are messages that are only important or even understandable for a few or a group of people. Think of the previo marketing list usly mentioned “Fat sick man tweets”. These are filtered out. What remains are tweets that have more meaning, but can actually also be ‘normal’. If Ajax is playing or The Voice of Holland (#TVOH) is on television, it is understandable that many tweets appear about this or that these topics even become ‘trending’.A tweet is
Despite the fact that ‘trending’ indicates that many people are talking about the topic, it may not be news yet. the kremlin’s “event composter”: be vigilant In addition, it is actually too late for a journalist because there is already a lot of communication about the topic. It is not a scoop that they can bring first.
