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The 19-year-old behind BreakingNewsOn

By Julie Starr | Published: July 15, 2009
I started following BreakingNewsOn on Twitter a long time ago and I am still a follower. Largely because it does what it says on the tin – it posts tweets summarising breaking news from around the world, generally well before local media outlets pick it up. Like many people, until yesterday I didn’t realise that [...]
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List of news groups posting to Twitter

By Julie Starr | Published: March 3, 2008
This is worth a look if you're a news-hungry Twitter fan. It's a list of news organisations posting updates to Twitter.
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Using Twitter to deliver news: a few early thoughts

By Julie Starr | Published: February 17, 2008
I've been getting news feeds on Twitter from BBC, Radio NZ and a Netherlands based group called BreakingNewsOn for a couple of months. So far, I'd say Twitter works really well for delivering news.
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