BBC News Online has launched a news channel on Twitter. BBC's not made a big splash about this news - it's an experiment right now they say - but it has been launched quietly here on this blog.
BBC News is now being sent out via Twitter to users' mobiles / IM / web / RSS feeds. The site and feeds are available on twitter.com/bbcnews.
Update - BBC has now launched dedicated feeds for news sections:
News frontpage: bbcnews (the existing bot)
Business: bbcbusiness
Politics: bbcpolitics
Health: bbchealth
Education: bbceducation
Sci/Tech: bbcscitech
Technology: bbctech
Entertainment: bbcentertainment
Sport: bbcsport
England: bbcengland
Northern Ireland: bbcnireland
Scotland: bbcscotland
Wales: bbcwales
Am I missing the point of this? BBC's always offered its news to mobiles and PDAs. What's the difference?
I'm reading loads of stuff about Twitter and two people have purposely emailed me about it.
I just don't get it...
Posted by: Stephen Davies | January 10, 2007 at 07:10 PM
This isn't just news to mobiles and PDAs. I posted a bit more detail on my blog earlier this week, but I see Twitter as being to SMS or IM what what MySpace, Bebo and Facebook were to the web... It's like blogging was in 2002 or MySpace before everyone was on it. Nobody who wasn't doing it could see the point. Then when people started doing it, they got it.
Personally I'm not using it for SMS. I'm using I'm through my GoogleTalk app on my mobile so I'm always online in this social network. My network can get me in real time and I'm tracking conversations from people I'm interested in - like guys at CES in Vegas or at Macworld. Then I track my buddies' conversations via RSS for browsing later too. I've also got a 'badge' of my most recent update on my blog. And lastly, once you've got it rigged up right, you'll see this is far simpler than blogging. I think the techies call this Presence.
Posted by: Drew B | January 10, 2007 at 08:04 PM