Twitter unveiled a new tool called ‘Curator’ for media organizations during the ‘News:Rewired Conference’ in London, the previous week.
According to thenextweb, The new web app will help media organizations gather embeddable collections of tweets and vines. The embeddable collection would be anything, but ordinary. It would include breaking news from the sporting arena, political world and even tweets from TV shows from specific geographic areas, that are news worthy and will hold significant news value for journalists.
Journalists just need to enter a search term or hashtag to gather news they are looking for. This will help them narrow down the tweets and vines. Further, tweaking is also possible with filters.
More important, you can remove retweets and avoid messages having swear words in them.
Once you have customized stream of tweets, you can come up with a curated selection comprising the best messages. Once it’s done, you can export it as an embeddable widget.
Apart from print journalists, even broadcasters can generate on-air graphics with Twitter responses. The stream of curator tweets will be shown along with a page of analytics for that specific collection.
Does Twitter’s ‘Curator’ sounds like Storify – a tool that was used for building embeddable collections of tweets? Notwithstanding the comparisons, Curator will be much more powerful than Storify, for it would have direct link into Twitter’s firehose and plus, journalists would have access to lot of other data.
Journalists who want to make use of Curator need to contact Twitter directly.
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