Newsmaking in the Twittersphere – some new international data on how journalism flows through the microblog network (guest blog) #twitter

Marco Toledo Bastos is a man with a lot of data on Twitter and how it is used as a stream for accessing news from mainstream journalism brands in a variety of countries. He is a visiting research research fellow at the Department of Media and Communications where this week he gave an presentation on his latest findings*. Here he gives us a flavour of the data which I found a fascinating way of trying to understand Twitter’s new role as a news channel.