Monitoring Different Types of Media Outlets to Get the Full Scoop on a Issue
We’re still following what’s happening with FISA, and we saw some interesting trends today. Look at the difference in coverage of FISA on different mediums.
Here’s at look at the number of posts about FISA on Twitter over the last two weeks.
You can see that there was more chatter about FISA on Twitter yesterday than at any point over the last two weeks. That’s a different story than what you see when looking at coverage from mainstream news sources and blogs.
Here are the stories about FISA picked up by Google News over the last two weeks:
And here are the blog posts about FISA picked up by Technorati over the same period:
The mainstream media and blog coverage picked up in Google News and Technorati tell a pretty similar story, with the exception of more blog coverage around the time the story of the my.barackobama.com group protesting Obama’s stance on issue got big. But neither spike like Twitter does yesterday.
I used Managing News to track this story, but a great way to track stories in Twitter (graphs and all) is Twitscoop.



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Blogs are catching up
I just checked in on the FISA story on Managing News and saw that FISA coverage on Technorati now has an almost identical spike to what we were seeing from Twitter this morning. Looks like the blogs are catching up to the microblogs.
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