Breaking News List is one of my Twitter Lists, whose initial intent was to string together the handles of news outlets specifically marked “breaking news” from all over the globe. That worked for a while. At times, I would add in, usually temporarily, the accounts of the closest news outlets reporting on sudden local events and situations, especially Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria — with as many accounts reporting on Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the Caribbean being added as I could find, since their recovery from the devastation wrought by Hurricane Maria has brought little more than a shrug of paper towels from the current U.S. President, a despicable ongoing situation that thankfully others have stepped forward to manage since we have a federal agency tasked more with forms than food for survivors. But that is literally a whole other post on a different blog, Helping Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Media TODAY is another one of my Twitter Lists — which is rather complicated, because there are so many different ways that video and audio can be used on the internet — whose intent was to string together accounts that regularly tweet out audio and/or video clips, including: those that have captured a specific event, is a “viral” popular video; or promote podcasts; or are promoting a scheduled live event that is streamed live online and then is archived and available to watch later like @SchomburgCenter or @BookTV on C-SPAN2 or @Letters Live or @The Aspen Institute; or are from one of the new online-only streaming video networks, whether news like @NowThis or entertainment like @PeopleTV or business like @Cheddar or classical music events like @medici.tv or video games, including watching individual gamers or groups of gamers play through various titles, like @Twitch; or are available archived audio of news events and interviews like @PacificaRadioArchive or @American Archive or @Pop Up Archive. The most popular tweets end up displayed on my Media TODAY @twttimes newspaper at http://tweetedtimes.com/v/11939
See both lists as they automatically update below.
