Posts Tagged ‘twitter’

Weather Central adds Facebook, Twitter integration to product

Weather Central, one of the world’s largest weather graphics and data providers has announced that its 3D:LIVE offering will now include ways for forecasters to directly sends portions of their forecasts to social networking sites.

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MSNBC.com adds @breakingnews to homepage

Following its agreement to take over the @breakingnews Twitter account, MSNBC.com has started including the tweets on its homepage under under the “Just in” tab.

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‘Nightly’ and ‘Today’ boasting Vancouver-themed Twitter backgrounds

The Twitter pages for “NBC Nightly News” and the “Today Show” are sporting Olympics-themed Twitter backgrounds that incorporate the shows’ logos into the shield-like logo NBC uses for its Olympics coverage. Interestingly, however, MSNBC’s hasn’t been updated.

‘Nightly’ adds social media, technology icons to close

“NBC Nightly News” has added Twitter, SMS, Facebook and Podcast icons to its closing copyright graphic, as shown above. The graphic also includes the “always on” tagline and the show’s Web site address.

AP finally activates Twitter, Facebook to help cover Haiti quake

The Associated Press has finally hopped on the social media bandwagon, flipping the switch on its Facebook and Twitter profiles to aid in covering the devastating earthquakes in Haiti.

As of this morning, the Twitter account was at about 3,600 followers, while the Facebook page had just over 1,000 fans.

It’s interesting to note the timing of the launches — was AP planning to launch these around this time already and decided to use this big story as a good jumping off point? Or maybe AP management was waiting for a “big” news story? It’s also worth noting the launches come on the heels of the end of Google’s hosting of AP stories.

MSNBC adds social media toolbar to some stories

We noticed MSNBC.com has added a floating social media sharing toolbar to some story pages.

The toolbar provides one-click access to share content via Newsvine (an MSNBC-owned property), Facebook, Twitter and via e-mail.

MSNBC upgrades online video player

MSNBC has unveiled some upgrades and a new look to the embedding and sharing portions of its online video player.

The new tools allow users to embed video clips at different sizes and adds integrated Twitter, Facebook and Newsvine sharing tools. Users can also trim clips to custom lengths using sliders similar to those seen on Hulu.

The size options provide a good level of flexibility for bloggers and other online publishers who may require a certain size to fit their layouts.

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‘Today’ updates Twitter background

NBC’s “Today Show” has a new Twitter page background. The new look includes several 3D “sunrise arches” floating in front of a whispy cloudscape. Also added is a the show’s new image campaign slogan: “Your Day is Today.”

The page still doesnt’ fix the issue of users with extremely large screens seeing a jarring cut-off on the edges of the background, as we’ve lamented before.

NewscastTip: Twitter tips to launch, enhance your use of the service

Twitter has slowly but surely been sneaking its way into every aspect of our lives and TV news is no exception.

Some stations have started Twitter accounts for the newsroom or individual anchors and reporters, though it’s not always the actual person behind the posts.

Tools like HootSuite (which just came out with a new version) and CoTweet let multiple people manage the same Twitter account, meaning you won’t have to share a password with everyone in the newsroom and risk having your account exposed.

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Station adds personality to tweets with sidebar graphic

KOMU-TV, the NBC affiliate serving the Columbia/Jefferson City market has updated its Twitter page background to include a list of the people feeding the station’s Twitter feed, complete with each person’s Twitter handle and initials used to sign his or her tweet.

Since the station is owned by the University of Missouri, most of the folks feeding KOMU’s Twitter timeline are students, but it’s quite easy to envision reporters’ or other staff member photos here instead.

This approach works well because it not only allows Twitter readers to see who’s behind the posts they read, but also serves as a cross-promotion tool to get the public to follow other feeds.

MSNBC adds account list to side of Twitter pages

MSNBC has added a list of its various Twitter accounts to the side of its main Twitter pages. The list is broken into three broad categories: one for its various news feeds, one for personalities and one for shows.

It also appears this Twitter page has been set up correctly so the background doesn’t repeat on extremely large screens, something we noted in an earlier post. It’s interesting to note that David Shuster’s account hasn’t been updated (he used to use “Shuster1600” but users visiting that page are told  “David’s real #twitter account is @DavidShuster. sorry for the confusion,” a change obviously  brought on by the end of the “1600 Pennsylvania Avenue” show.

We also note that at least one MSNBC personality who tweets is missing: anchor Alex Witt.

WFLD-TV prepares for HD launch

A tipster sent us this picture from Nancy Loo’s TwitPic account showing the new FOX Chicago, WFLD-TV, set. The set, by Blyth, is the FOX O&O standard set. The set has been customized with the FOX Chicago brand instead of the usual FOX and channel number brand, as WFLD-TV goes by FOX Chicago instead of FOX 32.

Watch for the debut sometime soon, along with news in HD.