When it comes to the service known as Twitter, I am quite sure that many people as well as corporations have learned that this is more than just a tool to follow and chat with folks in 140 characters or less, sharing short and sweet updates with the rest of the world. One can also drop profound questions that might even stump the likes of Aristotle or Homer, but it also works great as a tool to stream breaking news in short bursts. The thing is, how can you be aware of what is happening on the news front with so many tweets flying back and forth? Dataminr for News is here to help.
Dataminr for News happens to be a new kind of service which journalists would love, since they like to be in the front line when it comes to getting a scoop. This service will pick out stories as they break on Twitter, and it is ready to rock and roll over in the US. CNN did put Dataminr for News on trial not too long ago, and the number of newsrooms that has since worked with it include luminaries like the BBC, The Weather Channel, and USA Today, among others.
It is finally available to all newsrooms that want to take advantage of the massive half a billion public Tweets which Dataminr claims to parse through each day, filtering out the “junk” and delivering what it calls news to the deserving masses. Expect to see Dataminr for News made available via Tweetdeck integration.
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