Twitter v #NOTW: the growing power of social media?
Over on the BBC, Rory Cellan-Jones has some background on an interesting aspect of the News of the World story. For a while now, traditional news outlets have been in competition (of sorts) with social media to feed a developed appetite for rolling news. However, as Cellan-Jones has flagged, this story appears to be bringing the print and broadcast media into conflict rather than competition with social media, particularly Twitter. A quick click on the current picture on trendsmap.com (at 12 pm on 06/07/2011) shows all the …