In a few seconds I created two new ‘newspapers’. The first, a newspaper based on tweets about the Australian Federal Election, aggregates content based on Twitter content published with the #ausvotes hashtag.
Talk about citizen journalism – well, in short form at least. Using paper.li it took just a couple of minutes to create. Click on the image to see a larger version of this morning’s ‘edition’. Down in the bottom right corner is a tweet of mine from just before I created the ‘newspaper’. I’d note that I created this edition this morning at around 6am. There was not much Twitter activity except from tweets from the parties. For those who enjoy comment from a diverse pool, check out the feed as the day unfolds. Last night election related tweets were flowing at up to 50 a minute.
I also created a Mark Fletcher newspaper based on Twitter users I follow. This is pretty cool as it draws content from a range of sources which interest me. Anyone can do this based on Twitter or Facebook feeds.
Paper.li is a very nice way of aggregating content from a range of sources through an interesting platform. It is when you look at tools like paper.li that you can start to make sense and use of the flood of tweets on a particular topic.