It was retweeted a few times. A retweet is when a Twitter user ‘re-broadcasts’ your message to their followers – thus broadening the audience.
In a few minutes the image had been viewed over 100 times.
Then it was retweeted by Suzi Perry from Channel Five’s Gadget Show. Suzi has over 40,000 followers – suddenly my image is being viewed (and retweeted) by thousands.
Then Paul Daniels retweeted Suzi’s retweet to his 25,000 followers. By the end of the day the image had been viewed nearly 10,000 times.
Guardian Local project launches with Leeds blog: a new experiment in local journalism and community coverage has launched today.
Several few weeks ago the Guardian introduced the beatbloggers for the Local project and wrote at the time that the Local project is a small-scale community approach to local news-gathering, and will focus on the three politically engaged cities of Edinburgh, Cardiff and Leeds.
This week they are launching the Leeds blog; the first in the series of local blogs which you’ll see appearing over the coming weeks. Run and curated by beatblogger John Baron, the Leeds blog will cover many aspects of the city in a fresh way; aiming to explore new models for journalism and social engagement through a mix of reporting, collaborative engagement with local communities, organisations and groups and aggregation.
I really hope this takes-off and becomes the success it deserves to be, and will be reading as often as possib…
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