Tweet queries; get news

It’s a beta version, but if successful, it could bring in a new way of accessing and consuming news.

In a social-media experiment, UK’s Guardian is asking users to tweet queries to find information on their news portal. The portal, in turn, will send you links to the latest and most relevant news pieces (from their content). Again through tweets from @GuardianTagBot

Guardian calls it ‘your new Twitter-based search assistant’.  Check http://www.guardian.co.uk/help/insideguardian/2011/oct/27/guardian-tag-bot-twitter-questions

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About vidya

As the content head of writeclick (A brand owned by Lucid Sense), Vidya guides all content initiatives and manages the team. Prior to joining Lucid Sense, she headed the content team for a creative agency for 5 years. Traveling, writing, reading are some of her favorite things to do. Recently hooked on to photography, but believes hard bound books are any day better to read than the iPad.

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