Tweetbreak, a thing of the future?
Phillip Hughes and Chris Gayle may have set a precedent for international cricketers to stay directly in touch with fans through Twitter
Kanishkaa Balachandran
25-Feb-2013
Phillip Hughes and Chris Gayle may have set a precedent for international cricketers to stay directly in touch with fans through Twitter. Don't be surprised if news breaks start appearing on such social networking platforms in future, writes Anand Vasu in his new blog Bat On Regardless for the Hindustan Times.
Experienced journalists tell me they’ve almost never heard the editor storm the floor of the office yelling “stop press!”, which seems to be a permanent fixture in all movies about newspapers. Wire services do have obituaries of prominent (and ageing) personalities ready to be published in case of any eventuality, but the number of times someone is wrongfully declared dead and has to say, “look at me, I’m clearly alive” are few and far between.
Kanishkaa Balachandran is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo