July 06, 2009
National newspapers have a total of 1,068,898 followers across all their Twitter accounts – with the Guardian, Times and FT the only three papers in the top 10 newspaper accounts. The Guardian’s the clear Twitter winner, as it’s place on the Twitter Suggested User List means that its GuardianTech account has 831,935 followers – 78% of the total …
Tags: Express, FT, Guardian, Independent, Mail, Mirror, rss, Sun, Telegraph, Times, twitter statistics
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July 03, 2009
OK, newspapers shouldn’t turn off RSS feeds. I was wrong.
The point I was trying to make was that there didn’t seem much point having RSS icons in your header (Express) or by your search box (Mirror), or offering a brilliant RSS mashup feature (Guardian), or having RSS icons by each section of your news area (Independent) etc etc – but not doing anything to educate people about what they could do with all this.
Tags: Express, Guardian, Independent, Mirror, rss
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June 30, 2009
The latest subscriber figures (see table below) show that, apart from a couple of exceptions, it’s time for newspapers to turn off their RSS feeds – and hand over the server space, technical support and webpage real estate to something else. Like Twitter.
Tags: Express, FT, Guardian, Independent, Mail, Mirror, rss, Sun, Telegraph, Times
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