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Posted on January 22, 2010 | tags

 
 

Tech: Survival of the tweetest? AFP tries an endurance test for journalists

  • one Five journalists will be locked away in a farmhouse in rural France for five days next month.
  • two The journos will not have access to any form of mainstream media but Twitter and Facebook.
  • three Among the sources banned: TV, radio, newspapers, smartphones and other Web sites.
  • four The goal? To report what they see on social media, and to test the quality of the info. source